shittle
English
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]shittle (comparative more shittle, superlative most shittle)
Noun
[edit]shittle (plural shittles)
- (archaic) A shuttle (part of a loom).
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- a curious web, whose yarn she threw in with a golden shittle