Meaning

noun badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

noun public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points

noun bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

originFrom a merger of two words: * Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English sċyttel, sċutel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut + -le * Middle English shutel, schetil, shotil, shetel, schootyll, shutyll, schytle, scytyl (“missile; projectile; spear”), from Old English sċytel, sċutel (“dart, arrow”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz. The name for a…

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