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Shed :: Shed (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle..

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..

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..

Shoot :: Shoot (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of 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.

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..

Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words..

Shuttle :: Shuttle (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle..

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..

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

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.

Shittlecock :: Shittlecock (n.) A shuttlecock.

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

Shuttlecork :: Shuttlecork (n.) See Shuttlecock.

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..

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

Shittle :: Shittle (n.) A shuttle.

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

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

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