Shuttle

(noun.) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads.

(noun.) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points.

(verb.) travel back and forth between two points.

埃西手打

• This consisted of mechanical means for throwing the shuttle across the web by a sudden jerk of a bar--one at each side--operated by pulling a cord. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Through this shed the shuttle which carries the woof or filling thread is sent crosswise the warp threads. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Then a shuttle, also carrying a stout thread, was thrown over the cord, the needle receded and was then forced through the broom again _under_ the binding cord. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Wilson invented the rotary hook carrying a bobbin, which took the place of the reciprocating shuttle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Crude Condition until the Modern Lathe, Mandrel, Shuttle and Sewing Machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• For the making of ribbons and other kind of narrow ware, the needle power loom has been invented, in which the fine weft thread is carried through the web by a needle instead of a shuttle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1760 Robert Kay invented the drop box, by which different shuttles carrying different colors of thread were employed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Spindles, shuttles, wheels, and contrivances, plying ideally within the same; rather hopeless-looking, which, however, he did at last bring to bear. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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