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Shed :: Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads..

Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself..

Shuttlewise :: Shuttlewise (adv.) Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle..

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..

Shuttlecork :: Shuttlecork (n.) See Shuttlecock.

Race :: Race (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc..

Weaving :: Weaving (n.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing 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..

Picker :: Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp..

Pick :: Pick (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch..

Battledoor :: Battledoor (n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock..

Shittle :: Shittle (n.) A shuttle.

Woof :: Woof (n.) The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.

Quill :: Quill (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle..

Shittlecock :: Shittlecock (n.) A shuttlecock.

Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal..

Pirn :: Pirn (n.) A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod..

Badminton :: Badminton (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks..

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