A short dictionary entry from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary describing the shuttle-winder, a device for winding thread onto a shuttle such as the round shuttle of the Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine or a tatting shuttle. It explains how the shuttle is clasped and rotated above the spool, with the spring opening the jaws to receive the thread. An illustration (Fig. 5068) shows a tatting shuttle-winder, and the entry cross-references Bobbin-Winder.