Shuttle
WordNet
noun
(1) Bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
(2) Public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
(3) Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
verb
(4) Travel back and forth between two points
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Etymology
From , from from (see ). Name for loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as .