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Scuttle   /skˈətəl/   Listen
verb
Scuttle  v. t.  (past & past part. scuttled; pres. part. scuttling)  
1.
To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
2.
To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
3.
Hence: To defeat, frustrate, abandon, or cause to be abandoned; of plans, projects, actions, hopes; as, the review committee scuttled the project due to lack of funds.


Scuttle  v. i.  To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle. "With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron."


noun
Scuttle  n.  
1.
A broad, shallow basket.
2.
A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.


Scuttle  n.  A quick pace; a short run.


Scuttle  n.  
1.
A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid. Specifically:
(a)
(Naut.) A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
(b)
An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
2.
The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
Scuttle butt, or Scuttle cask (Naut.), a butt or cask with a large hole in it, used to contain the fresh water for daily use in a ship.





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"Scuttle" Quotes from Famous Books



... shall ever be to write again. I will hope all my best hopes; for I have no sort of intention at this time of day of finishing either as a martyr or a hero. I rather intend to live and record both those professions, if need be; and I have no inclination to scuttle barefoot after a Duke of Wolfenbuttle's army as Philip de Comines says he saw their graces of Exeter and Somerset trudge after the Duke of Burgundy's. The invasion, though not much in fashion yet, begins, like Moses's rod, to swallow other news, both political and suicidical. ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... she rode in the rude tide-rip, to left and right she rolled, And the skipper sat on the scuttle-butt and stared at ...
— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling
... an ancient trunk. Then I conquered them and garrisoned their land. (Alas! they died, no doubt through contact with civilisation—one my mother trod on—and their land became a wilderness again and was ravaged for a time by a clockwork crocodile of vast proportions.) And out towards the coal-scuttle was a region near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain country of rudely piled bricks concealing the most devious and enchanting caves and several mines ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells
... his fist with a resounding whack on the scuttle butt, threatening to stave in the top ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... flourishing and slashing of the stick. A scuttle of racing moccasined feet. The quarry had broken cover and the ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum


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