shutter

One who shuts or closes something.

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

The volunteers consisted of a ringmaster, two experienced young cattlemen to grade the cattle, gate-openers and shutters[…]

Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.

The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.

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.

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.

To close shutters covering.

Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!

To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.

It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.

To cancel or terminate.

The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.

This company was shuttered in 2002.

To rain heavily.

Mollie Wilson was a teenager living with her parents in Donaghmore in Tyrone, Northern Ireland [and said this]: 3rd September [1939] When Chamberlain made his declaration of war, there was violent thunder and lightning and rain shuttered down. I had always trusted rain too.

It's a bastard of a day, shuttering rain, but I can still shape up the hills off in the distance.

A surname.