Definition of shut

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Shut (a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are..

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Foreclose :: Foreclose (v. t.) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
Dam :: Dam (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom..
Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words..
Blockade :: Blockade (n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress..
Shuttlecork :: Shuttlecork (n.) See Shuttlecock.
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..
Close :: Close (n.) The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
Quadrivalve :: Quadrivalve (n.) A door, shutter, or the like, having four folds..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
Picker :: Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp..
Cub :: Cub (v. t.) To shut up or confine.
Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood..
Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To shut up; to inclose.
Cold-shut :: Cold-shut (a.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting.
Shuttlewise :: Shuttlewise (adv.) Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle..
Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument..
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..
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