shutter

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   close with shutters

   We shuttered the window to keep the house cool.

2. 2
   noun

   One who shuts or closes something.

   The openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind.

3. 3
   noun

   Any other opening and closing device.

   A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment. […] A shutter, in three parts, is fitted, which when lowered completely encloses the bar.

4. 4
   noun

   A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.

   The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.

Two main origins: * Occupational surname for a marksman, from an agent derivative of Middle English shoten (“to shoot”). * An Americanized spelling of Schutter.

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