I. ˈshəd.ə(r), -ətə- noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
1. : one that shuts
2.
a. : a usually movable cover or screen for a window or door (as to shut out the light or obstruct the view) — compare blind , jalousie , louver
b. : such a cover or screen for a picture or altarpiece
3.
a. : a mechanical device of various forms (as the rotary, iris diaphragm, or focal-plane shutter) attached to a camera to expose the film or plate by opening and closing an aperture
b. : a usually rotating element that obscures the light in the optical path of a motion-picture mechanism at a predetermined interval
4. : a removable cover, lid, or gate for closing an aperture (as the passageway through which molten iron flows from a ladle)
5. : the movable louvers in a pipe organ by which the swell box is opened and which are manipulated by means of the swell pedal
II. verb
( shuttered ; shuttered ; shuttering -d.əriŋ, -ətər-, -ə.tr- ; shutters )
transitive verb
1. : to close with or by shutters
saw us looking out the windows and came up and shuttered them — Rumer Godden
the gate was shuttered — Anne Green
during the heat of the day, houses are shuttered — American Guide Series: Florida
2. : to close (an establishment) to business by or as if by closing shutters
suppressed their dances, banned movies, shuttered nightclubs — Time
a shuttered butcher's shop — Lionel Shapiro
3. : to close (the eyes) as if with shutters
death in his shuttered eyes — Dorothy Hewett
intransitive verb
1. : to close to business by or as if by closing shutters
the bars in the village shutter at midnight — Leslie Waller
many operators will shutter rather than take continuous gambles — Billboard
2. : to close as if with shutters
eyes that shutter — too quick — when someone speaks — Jennette Yeotman