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The cost of moving the shuttle is a bit more than a first class ticket from LA to Orlando; in the aforementioned shuttle-giveaway program, the bill for simply moving the shuttle is an estimated $5.8 million.

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  1. noun A device used in weaving to carry the woof thread back and forth between the warp threads.
  2. noun A device for holding the thread in tatting and netting and in a sewing machine.
  3. noun Regular travel back and forth over an established, often short route by a vehicle.
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  • The only sound besides the humming of the shuttle was a child in the back crying. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 02 - August 1999
  • John Pike, director of space policy at the Federation of American Scientists, agrees--as long as the rocket belongs to the private sector, not the U.S. government. "I would be concerned if the shuttle were all covered with decals like an Indy racer, with a big Pennzoil decal on the rudder." —  Omni: February 1994
  • Maybe this Luna shuttle was the mechanism by which the moon's cheese was brought to Xanth, though he wasn't sure what use metal people would have for cheese. —  Ogre Ogre
  • At the base of the shuttle was a wide ramp leading up into its interior. —  StrangeHorizons,August2002
  • It also makes the point the shuttle is an operating vehicle, whereas the alternatives remain out of sight. —  NASASpaceFlight.com
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  1. Middle English shutille, from Old English scytel, dart; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also shittle, shyttell; from Middle English schyttyl, schytle, schitel, schetyl, ssettel, a shuttle, a bolt of a door, from Anglo-Saxon *scytels, scyttels (plural scyttelsas), the bolt of a door (cf. Swedish dial. skyttel, skottel =Danish skyttel, a shuttle; cf. also Danish skytte, G. (weber-) schütz, a shuttle, Swedish skot-spol =D. schiet-spoel =G. schiess-spuhle, a shuttle, literally ‘shoot-spool’), from sceótan, shoot: see shoot, and cf. shut. Cf. skittle.
  2. from shuttle, n.
  3. Early modern English also shittle; from Middle English schityl, schytyl, schytylle; with adjective formative -cl, from Anglo-Saxon scéotan (past participle scoten), shoot: see shoot, n. Cf. shuttle, shyttell.
 

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