- scytel
- 1. m (scytles/scytlas) dart, arrow; tongue of balance; 2. m (scytles/scytlas) excrement; [scítan]
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
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shuttle — [OE] A shuttle is etymologically something that is ‘shot’. Indeed, the word’s Old English precursor scytel meant ‘arrow’ or ‘dart’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *skaut , *skeut , *skut ‘project’, which also produced… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
shuttle — [OE] A shuttle is etymologically something that is ‘shot’. Indeed, the word’s Old English precursor scytel meant ‘arrow’ or ‘dart’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *skaut , *skeut , *skut ‘project’, which also produced… … Word origins
shuttle — I. noun Etymology: Middle English shittle, shutle, from Old English scutel, scytel dart; akin to Old Norse skutill bolt, Old English scēotan to shoot more at shoot Date: 14th century 1. a. a device used in weaving for passing the thread of the… … New Collegiate Dictionary
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skeud- — To shoot, chase, throw. Derivatives include shoot, shut, and scuttle1. 1. shoot, from Old English scēotan, to shoot, from Germanic *skeutan, to shoot. 2. a. shot1, from Old English … Universalium
shuttle — shuttlelike, adj. /shut l/, n., v., shuttled, shuttling. n. 1. a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat shaped piece of wood containing a… … Universalium
shuttle — A going back and forth regularly; used in respect to certain transport processes across a biomembrane. glycerophosphate s. a mechanism for the transfer of reducing equivalents from the cytosol into the mitochondria; NADH is used to synthesize … Medical dictionary
Middle English phonology — The phonology of Middle English is necessarily somewhat speculative, since it is preserved purely as a written language. Nevertheless, there is a very large corpus of Middle English. The dialects of Middle English vary greatly over both time and… … Wikipedia
scetel — see scytel … Old to modern English dictionary
scutel — 1. m (scuttles/scutlas) dish, platter; 2. see scytel m (scutles/scutlas) 1. a dart, missile, arrow; 2. the tongue of a balance … Old to modern English dictionary
