scuttle
scut·tle (skut′'l)
noun
- a broad, open basket for carrying grain, vegetables, etc.
- a kind of bucket, usually with a wide lip, used for pouring coal on a fire
Etymology: ME scutel, a dish < OE < L scutella, salver, dim. of scutra, flat dish
scut·tle (skut′'l)
intransitive verb -·tled, -·tling
to run or move quickly; scurry, esp. away from danger, trouble, etc.
Etymology: ME scutlen, prob. akin to scud
noun
a scurry or scamper; hasty flight
scut·tle (skut′'l)
noun
- an opening in a wall or roof, fitted with a lid or cover
- a small, covered opening or hatchway in the outer hull or deck of a ship
- the lid or cover for any such opening
Etymology: LME skottelle < MFr escoutille, trapdoor < Sp escotilla, an indentation, hollowing < escote, a notch, tuck, prob. < Goth skauts, seam, border; akin to OE sceat, sheet
transitive verb -·tled, -·tling
- to make or open holes in the hull of (a ship or boat) below the waterline; esp., to sink in this way
- to scrap or abandon (a plan, undertaking, etc.)
scuttle
v.
Object
- shake: Are you put off by the irritating scuttle shake common to almost every convertible?
- fleet: Admiral Von Reuter, the man in charge, fearing the break down of negotiations, made plans to scuttle the fleet.
- ship: Rather than let the Cormoran fall into American hands, they scuttled the ship.
- panel: Guards, bonnet top and top scuttle panel are steel as Mike had informed me over the ' phone.
- charge: Whilst surrender talks were going on the Germans abandoned ship and scuttling charges detonated her magazine, ending the last of Spee's squadron.
- vessel: By evening a gale running down both sides of the Scottish mainland and small coastal vessels scuttled for shelter.
Preposition: across
- floor: Then, dynamically, Cosmic bounded in, hurdling the step into the library, and scuttled across the floor.
Adjective complement
- German: Dive on the wrecks of the scuttled German High Sea Fleet.
Modifying Another Word
- away: Scuttling away from their glowing light gems numerous rats made for whatever shadows they could find.
- back: Others might be able to survive just long enough to scuttle back into the sea.
- about: Typically found scuttling about in vegetation or in the surface layers of bottom sediments, occasionally in open water.
- then: So America control ' most of ' the place in the day and then scuttle when night time falls.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- off: Fishing for the camera, I scuttled off across the ridge to await the sunrise.
- around: These creatures would have scuttled around just under the water.
- out: He ran at me but I jumped out of the way and he scuttled out of the kitchen and under the nearby toilet door.
Followed by a transitive particle
- down: It was little more than a shadow, and it scuttled down the darkened hall fast, like a little patch of night.
- up: And he scuttled up the moonlight floor, Where and owl glided over the shadowy trees.
- around: Got sorted and started to scuttle around the three remaining boilers.
- off: To date, 2.9 million copies have scuttled off the UK's shelves.
Noun used with modifier
- coal: They make rather neat little coal scuttles, or plant pots.
Browse dictionary entries near scuttle
- scutter
- scutiform
- scutellum
- scutellation
- scutellate
- scute
- scutcheon
- scutch
- scutate
- Scutari
- scuttlebutt
- scutum
- scuzz
- scuzzy
- Scylla
- scyphistoma
- scyphozoan
- scyphus
- Scyros
- scythe
