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Send to the ocean bottom
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scuttle
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cut a hole in a ship to sink it," 1640s, from skottell (n.) "opening in a ship's deck" (late 15c.), from Middle French escoutille (Modern French écoutille ) or directly from Spanish escotilla "hatchway," diminutive of escota "opening in a garment," from ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scuttle may refer to: Scuttling , the deliberate sinking of one's own ship Coal scuttle , a bucket-like container for coal Shaving scuttle , a teapot-like container for hot water Scuttle, a fictional character in Disney's The Little Mermaid Scuttle (software) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scuttle \Scut"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scuttled (sk[u^]t"t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Scuttling .] To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose. To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle ...
Usage examples of scuttle.
All the sounds were harsh and grating--the whirring of grasshoppers and locusts, the chattering of parrots and laughing-jackasses, the cawing of cockatoos and scuttling of iguanas through the coarse dry blady grass.
Beetledown smacked his bowstaff against the creatures flank and it scuttled forward.
Walt Barnett, huge and menacing, brandished a fist, and the man, after one terrified glance, scuttled away.
By sight and feel it quickly determined that the scuttling, burrowing thing in the gritty sand was a crab.
A little man in white ducks and peaked cap jumped out through the space where the door ought to have been, stood still for a couple of seconds until he got the hang of terra firma again, and then scuttled off in the direction of our gangway.
Leaving Shammuron and Mentes to fight alone, he scuttled over the broken earth to the wizard and snatched him up in one terrible pincer.
While he recited the message, Randy scuttled toward his ankles, palped his trouser cuffs, and began to climb his leg.
The photon amp showed a monster crab scuttling right at him, metre length of pipe instead of claw.
Then, that no protesting narrative might follow and weaken his own, that his men might have no hope except in his success, he took the most daring resolution of his life, and scuttled his ships.
He sat beside the boy in the dark, foul clamminess of the tunnel while Ratty took the lantern and scuttled on ahead.
Palatazin nodded, and Ratty scuttled up quickly, shoving the cover aside.
He watched for a few seconds as the recon robot scuttled along the base of the stack.
Later on she was sunk or scuttled, then perhaps refloated, renamed, remodeled, or, for all I know, scrapped.
Each time his light uncovered a crook, Salter shed the glare somewhere else, and the thug went scuttling to cover.
The brush rustled, more so when several chicken-sized sauroids with short horns on their noses and lines of feathers down their forearms scuttled away from under the thrashing body.