Definition of shut

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Shut (a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g..

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Intraparietal :: Intraparietal (a.) Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired.
Harness :: Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..
Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch..
Unshet :: Unshet (v. t.) To unshut.
Dungeon :: Dungeon (v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
Foreclose :: Foreclose (v. t.) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words..
Blockade :: Blockade (v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n..
Rib :: Rib (v. t.) To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in..
Seclude :: Seclude (v. t.) To shut or keep out; to exclude.
Gatepost :: Gatepost (n.) A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.
Exclude :: Exclude (v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting..
Clausure :: Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
Picker :: Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp..
Incaverned :: Incaverned (a.) Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern.
Closure :: Closure (v. t.) The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink..
Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..
Race :: Race (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc..
Quill :: Quill (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle..
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