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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



... soon grow accustomed to it! Then I should move on to Afghanistan, and quietly make my way to India. But all this has to be done after the first step is taken. England must scuttle out of Egypt. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 7, 1891 • Various
... at his usual scuttle, was wet up to his waist, and shifting with more haste to come up again as if the water had followed him, cried out that "The ship was full of water!" There was no need to hasten the company, some to the pump, others to search for the leak, which the Captain of the bark seeing they ...
— Sir Francis Drake Revived • Philip Nichols
... common necessities. The reason is obvious. The names of common necessities vary completely with each nation and are generally somewhat odd and quaint. How, for instance, could a Frenchman suppose that a coalbox would be called a "scuttle"? If he has ever seen the word scuttle it has been in the Jingo Press, where the "policy of scuttle" is used whenever we give up something to a small Power like Liberals, instead of giving up everything to a great Power, like Imperialists. What Englishman in Germany would be poet enough ...
— Tremendous Trifles • G. K. Chesterton
... there was Debt at home as well as Death, and we had a sale there. My own little bed was so superciliously looked upon by a Power unknown to me, hazily called "The Trade," that a brass coal-scuttle, a roasting-jack, and a birdcage, were obliged to be put into it to make a Lot of it, and then it went for a song. So I heard mentioned, and I wondered what song, and thought what a dismal song it ...
— The Signal-Man #33 • Charles Dickens
... down, the coal-scuttle was upset, and at last, as Dick tried to get out of the room, Kate stumbled against a rosewood cabinet, sending one of the green vases with its glass shade crashing to the ground, ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore


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