Definition of shut

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Shut (v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book..

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Weft :: Weft (n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.
Clasp :: Clasp (v. t.) To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp)..
Deprive :: Deprive (v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of..
Seclude :: Seclude (v. t.) To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others..
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Alligator :: Alligator (n.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America..
Shuttlewise :: Shuttlewise (adv.) Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle..
Disclusion :: Disclusion (n.) A shutting off; exclusion.
Closet :: Closet (v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal..
Air-tight :: Air-tight (n.) A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
Mew :: Mew (v. t.) To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure..
Encloister :: Encloister (v. t.) To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.
Close :: Close (v. t.) Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box..
Picker :: Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp..
Snap :: Snap (n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound..
Doorstop :: Doorstop (n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door..
Stopper :: Stopped (a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.)..
Crib :: Crib (v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
Pen :: Pen (n. & v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose..
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