Definition of Shuttle
The boat-like device that carries the filling yarn wound on the bobbin, which sees in the shuttle from a shuttle box on one side of the faceplate of the loom through the shed. and into a shuttle box at the other side of the loom. Filling interlaces with the warp yarns to make weaving possible.
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