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Definition of Shuttling
1. shuttle [v] - See also: shuttle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuttling
Literary usage of Shuttling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"In the old hand-loom the weaver had to stop shuttling after every two inches of
cloth he wove and "draw the bore," and then he had to adjust the warp to the ..."
2. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"Traps or double-shuttling are here obviated by the empty box controlling the
picking. In both automatic and ordinary looms a marked extension of the ..."
3. The Republic of Letters: A Selection, in Poetry and Prose, from the Works of edited by Alexander Whitelaw (1835)
"But Tam had no sooner begun to turn over his Lexicon, than he found himself
horribly annoyed and disturbed by the shuttling of the weavers beneath him ; and ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1852)
"At another time we have them 'shuttling' about London in cabs, and talking eagerly,
in spite of the street uproar, to save time; or there is the ..."
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