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SHUTTLE, sb., v. and adj. Var. dial. uses in Sc. and
Eng. Also in forms shottel Sc.; shottle Sc. (Jam.) Lin.1
sw.Lin.1 [ʃu·tl, ʃɐ·tl.] See Shittle, sb.1 1. sb. In comb. (1)
Shuttle-arm, the arm with which the weaver throws the
shuttle; (2) Shuttle-board, (a) a battledore; (b) a shuttle-cock [not
known to our correspondents]; (3) Shuttle-cock, to play at battledore
and shuttle-cock; (4) Shuttle-cock fern, any fern which sends
up its young fronds in a circle; (5) Shuttle-exe, the axle of a
wagon that takes the hinder end of the ‘summers’ and
the ‘tail-board’; (6) Shuttle-eye, a small circular part of a loom,
made of glazed earthenware, through which the weft
passes; freq. in phr. to have one's money, &c. come through
the shuttle-eye, to make money, &c. through the shuttle-eye, to
earn one's living by weaving; (7) Shuttle-feather(s, a shuttlecock;
(8) Shuttle-gabbit or Shuttle-gobbed, of an animal, esp. a sheep
having a misshapen mouth; (9) Shuttle-gathering, see below;
(10) Shuttle-greuned, see (8); (11) Shuttle-hook, a small hook for drawing
the weft through the ‘shuttle-eye’; (12) Shuttle-mouthed, see
(8); (13) Shuttle of ice, a miniature glacier; a sloping slide or
frozen streamlet; (14) Shuttle-ploy, weaving.
(1) Gall. Yon ill-set randy has broken my shuttle-airm... I'll
never work mair a' my days! Crockett A. Mark (1899) xii.
(2, a) w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 (b) n.Cy. (Hall.) (3) Lnk. It's somewhat like
a boyish yoking, At battle door and shuttle-cocking, Rodger
Poems (1838) 107, ed. 1897. (4) Hmp. (W.M.E.F.) (5) Dor.
Barnes Gl. (1863) (s.v. Waggon). (6) w.Yks. (J.T.), w.Yks.3
Lan. He wanted no brass nobbut what come through th' shuttle-e'e,
Brierley Cotters, xxiv. s.Lan.1 His livin comes through th'
shuttle-ee. (7) w.Yks. Grown-up men and women playing ‘battledore
and shuttle feathers,’ Henderson Flk-Lore (1879) ii; w.Yks.3
(8) s.Sc. ‘D'ye think I'm gaunna sit here an' see that shuttle-gabbit
thing o' yours jump at my beast, when he's no fashin' yours?’
‘Shuttle-gabbit, did ye say. He's a wyser-like beast than that
brute o' yours, ony day.'.. ‘Yer dowg, as ye ca't, is no shuttle-gabbit,
gor, he's soo-luggit, an' that's mebbees waur,’ Abd. Wkly.
Free Press (Dec. 8, 1900). Cum.4 Hog or parrot-mouthed; when
by reason of abnormal length of the upper jaw it projects over
the lower. One class of sheep enjoyed almost entire immunity
from the disease [Fluke], namely, those known as ‘hog-mouthed,’
‘parrot-mouthed,’ and ‘shuttle-gobbed,’ Carlisle Patriot (Feb. 24,
1894), 6, col. 7. (9) Lan. They were going to Redburn on a
shuttle-gathering expedition ─ shuttle-gathering being an expedient
frequently adopted for stopping mills without destroying machinery.
For without shuttles there can be no weaving, and when all the
shuttles in a district were taken and destroyed, they could not be
replaced under several weeks, Westall Old Factory (1885) xi;
A group of impracticable objects which were to be accomplished by
a general ‘shuttle gathering,’ that is by a stoppage of the whole
flannel weaving of the valley by the collection of all the shuttles
by a mob, Kay-Shuttleworth Scarsdale (1860) III. 82. s.Lan.1
(10) Wm. Kirkby Granite Chips (1900) 127. (11) w.Yks. (J.T.)
(12) Lakel.2 (13) Gall. To slide, sitting on the hams or hunkers,
down shuttles o' ice, or braes, made sleek by a basking sun,
Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 279, ed. 1876. (14) w.Sc. What a
queer kind o' dergue is this love... A shuttle-ploy sure, 'mang
rich and 'mang poor, Wi' its pirnfu' o' woof guid and ill... Wi'
its warp that maks guid o' the ill, Henderson Our Jeames (1898) 165.
2. The stop-pin of a grindstone. w.Yks. Roberts Tom
and Charles (1850) 22. 3. A hollow in the stock of a
spinning-wheel, in which the bobbin first filled is kept
until the other is ready to be reeled with it. Sc. (Jam.)
4. A small drawer, esp. one fixed in a chest or press;
a till; a money-box.
Sc. When the lid of the shuttle is opened it holds up that of the
kist (Jam.); From a drawer under the shottel, Ochiltree Redburn
(1895) xii. Sh.&Ork.1, Cai.1 Slg. On Friday, faith, he
emptied all his shottles, Galloway Poems (1804) 69. Ayr. I had
three white half-croons in the shuttle o' my kist, Hunter Studies
(1870) 158. Dev. There were... the most costly ancient cabinets...
and I thought of the old names by which the little drawers
and boxes in such were called, ─ the shuttles, Bray Desc. Tamar
and Tavy (1836) III. xxxiv.
5. A horizontal bar of a gate or hurdle; one of the
minor supports joining the ‘summers’ of a cart to the
‘rades.’
Lin.1, sw.Lin.1, Som. (W.F.R.) w.Som.1 The upper bar of a
gate is always much stronger than the others, and is known as
the top shuttle. We do not say ‘five-bar-gate,’ but ‘five-shuttle-gate.’
6. A flood-gate; the sliding door which regulates the
supply of water in a mill-stream, &c. Cf. shittle, sb.1 3.
w.Yks. N. & Q. (1852) 1st S. v. 250; w.Yks.2 Not. The second
field from Monspool-lane, opposite the ‘shuttle’ or flood gate,
Fishing Gazette (Apr. 2, 1887) 207, col. 2. n.Lin.1 e.Som.
W. & J. Gl. (1873).
7. v. To weave.
Rnf. I see the shop, the loom, the seat, Whaur long I shuttl'd
air an' late, Young Pictures (1865) 150. Ayr. Samsie there would
rather shuttle for twelve hours than write a line, Johnston
Kilmallie (1891) II. 26.
Hence Shuttler, sb. a weaver.
Ayr. He was the prettiest shuttler I ever saw, Hunter Studies
(1870) 155.
8. To dart backwards and forwards.
Ayr. In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice,
Galt Gilhaize (1823) xxviii.
9. To push; to shake.
Ayr. He would hae grippit me by the cuff o' the neck and the
back o' the breeks and shuttled me through the window, Galt
Entail (1823) lxiv. Yks. Don't bother to shuttle a happle-tree to
get t'fruit, Baring-Gould Oddities (1874) I. 234, ed. 1875.
10. Of ground: to shelve, slope off.
Som. The groun' do shuttly off (W.F.R.).
11. adj. Quick, lithe, active, esp. in phr. so shuttle as a
rabbit.
Som. I mus' run zo shuttle as a rabbit, an' exercise my ho'ses,
Raymond Charity Chance (1896) vii. w.Som.1 Yours is a rare
pony, nif he idn so shuttle's a rabbit.
12. Slippery, sliding; quickly falling as grain.
Shr. Lintseed earth ─ dark brown ─ a very shuttle measure,
Marshall Review (1818) II. 200. w.Cy. (Hall.) Som. Applied
only to solid bodies, Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825). w.Som.1
Mus' put in another board in the hutch; that there whait's so
shuttle 't 'll be all over the place, else.

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Terme	Engish Dialect Dictionary	LVLC
BANG, v.	11. shuttle shuttle-box
BOSOM, sb.	3. shuttle
BOX, sb., v.1	(1) shuttle
BOX, sb.1, v.1	5. shuttles
BREAKER, sb.	2. shuttle
CLECKIN, CLECKINGS, sb.	1. shuttlecock 2. shuttlecocks
DRAW, v., sb.	shuttle
FILL, v.	4. shuttle
FLY, v., sb.2	2.(2) shuttle 4. shuttle
HACK, sb.2	20. shuttle	143,221,242
HALF, adj., adv., v.	1.(2) shuttle
HARNESS, sb.	2. shuttle
NASH, sb.2	shuttle
NEEDLE, sb., v.	3. shuttle shuttle
PADDLE, sb.7	shuttlecock
PICK, v.3, sb.3	7. shuttle 14. shuttle (1) shuttle (7) shuttle	20
PIN, sb.1, v.1	1.(1) shuttle-pins
PIRN, sb.1, v.1	1. shuttle
POVERTY, sb.	1.(4)(b) shuttle
QUILL, sb.2, v.2	1. shuttle
RACE, sb.1, v.1	shuttle
SHADE, v.2, sb.6	5. shuttle	74
SHED, v.2, sb.5	11. shuttle
SHEDDLE, sb.2	shuttle
SHITTLE, sb.1	1. shuttle
SHITTLE-COCK, sb.	shuttle-cock
SHOOT, sb.	2. shuttle
SHOOT, v.	10. shuttle
SHOT, sb.4	6. shuttle
SHUFFLY-COCK, sb.	shuttle-cock
SHUTTLE, sb., v., adj.	(1) shuttle (2)(b) shuttle-cock (3) shuttle-cock (7) shuttlecock (11) shuttle-eye
SPOOL, sb.	2. shuttle shuttle 3. shuttle
STOP, v., sb.1	(3) shuttle-gate
TRIP-TROUT, sb.	shuttlecock
WEAVING, sb.	(3) shuttle