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SHUTTLE
Definition of SHUTTLE
noun
A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
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Where it comes from
From a merger of two words: The name for a 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 shuttlecock.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHUTTLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHUTTLE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHLSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SHUTTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SHUTTLE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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