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Scuttle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A small opening or hatch with a movable lid in the deck or hull of a ship or in the roof, wall, or floor of a building.

n. The lid or hatch of such an opening.

v. Nautical To cut or open a hole or holes in (a ship's hull).

v. Nautical To sink (a ship) by this means.

v. Informal To scrap; discard: "a program [the] President . . . sought to scuttle” ( Christian Science Monitor).

n. A metal pail for carrying coal.

n. A shallow open basket for carrying vegetables, flowers, or grain.

verb-intransitive. To run or move with short hurried movements; scurry.

n. A hurried run.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).

n. A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.

n. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.

v. To deliberately sink a ship or boat by order of the vessel's commander or owner.

v. Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.

v. To move hastily, to scurry

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A broad, shallow basket.

n. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

verb-intransitive. To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.

n. A quick pace; a short run.

n. A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.

n. 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.

n. An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.

n. The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.

v. To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

v. To sink by making holes through the bottom of.

v. To defeat, frustrate, abandon, or cause to be abandoned; -- of plans, projects, actions, hopes.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A broad, shallow dish; a platter. Compare scuttle-dish.

n. A deep vessel of sheet-iron, copper, or brass, used for holding coal in small amounts; a coal-scuttle or coal-hod. See coal-scuttle.

n. A swabber used for cleaning a bakers' oven.

n. Nautical, a small hatchway or opening in the deck, with a lid for covering it; also, a like hole in the side of a ship, or through the coverings of her hatchways; by extension, a hole in general.

n. A square hole in the wall or roof of a house, covered with a lid; also, the lid that covers such an opening.

Naut, to cut holes through the bottom or sides of (a ship) for any purpose; specifically, to sink by making holes through the bottom.

To run hurriedly, or with short, hurried steps; hurry.

n. A quick pace; a short, hurried run; a mincing, affected gait.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. to move about or proceed hurriedly

n. an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

n. container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire

Word Usage

"When the wash receded they followed it with an incredibly rapid twinkling of little legs; and when again the wave rushed, shoreward, _scuttle, scuttle, scuttle_ went they, keeping always just at the edge of the water."

Equivalent

scuttle cask

Verb Form

scuttled scuttles scuttling

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

container

Cross Reference

magazine-scuttle flush scuttle fore-scuttle

Form

scuttled scuttling

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

hurry bustle scuddle run

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

rebuttal ruttle shuttle subtle suttle unsubtle