A shuttle is a vehicle or service that goes back and forth between two places on a regular route. In weaving, it is a tool that carries thread across a loom.
“Shuttle” comes from Old English “scytel,” meaning a dart or missile, related to “shoot.” It came to mean the weaving tool that shoots back and forth across the threads. Modern transport shuttles are named by analogy with this repeated back-and-forth motion.
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