Meanings
adjectiveshittle (comparative more shittle, superlative most shittle)
comparative more shittle · superlative most shittle
nounshittle (plural shittles)
plural shittles
- archaicA shuttle (part of a loom).
a curious web, whose yarn she threw in with a golden shittle
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
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shittle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shittle.
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