shittle

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

/ˈʃɪtl̩/

Obsolete Unsettled; uneasy; disturbed.

noun

Archaic A shuttle (part of a loom).

a curious web, whose yarn she threw in with a golden shittle1614–1615, 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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