shuts

1. The act or time of shutting; close.

   the shut of a door

2. A door or cover; a shutter.
3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

1. To close, to stop from being open.

   Please shut the door.

2. To close, to stop being open.

   If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut.

3. To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.

   The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.

4. To confine in an enclosed area.

   I shut the cat in the kitchen before going out.

5. To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.

   He's just shut his finger in the door.

6. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.

noun

A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.