shuttle – English noun declension

English noun forms of shuttle

Noun: shuttle
Singularshuttle
Pluralshuttles

Sample Sentences

  • My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:6:]
  • Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide
  • My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!. [1638, George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job:]
  • By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle. [2013 November 11, Claus-Dieter Brauns, “Food and Clothing”, in Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh, Basel: Birkhäuser, page 131:]
  • The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.
  • And until December 2010 the northern stretch of the 'Extension' featured a charming side-show: the Chesham Shuttle. [...] But the people of Chesham moaned about the shuttle: the waiting room at Chalfont & Latimer was too hot, or too cold; there were leaves on the line. [...] On 12 Dec 2010 the shuttle ceased operations and Metropolitan trains began to terminate at both Amersham and Chesham. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 76, 77:]
  • You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit. [2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20:]

Etymology

1. From a merger of two words:
2. * Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English sċyttel, sċutel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut + -le
3. * Middle English shutel, schetil, shotil, shetel, schootyll, shutyll, schytle, scytyl (“missile; projectile; spear”), from Old English sċytel, sċutel (“dart, arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz.
4. The name for a loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as shuttlecock. See: Middle English Nouns 'shutel', Old English Nouns 'sċyttel', Middle English Nouns 'shutel', Old English Nouns 'sċytel'.

Verbs referencing "shuttle"

Dutch Nouns shuttle, Italian Nouns shuttle, Russian Nouns шаттл.