Crossword clues for scuttle
scuttle
- Sink, as a derelict ship
- Send to the ocean bottom
- An entrance equipped with a hatch
- Shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
- Container for coals
- Especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- Coal holder
- Run with quick, small steps
- Sink one's ship deliberately
- Sink as container for domestic fuel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scuttle \Scut"tle\ (sk[u^]t"t'l), n. [OF. escoutille, F. ['e]scoutille, cf. Sp. escotilla; probably akin to Sp. escotar to cut a thing so as to make it fit, to hollow a garment about the neck, perhaps originally, to cut a bosom-shaped piece out, and of Teutonic origin; cf. D. schoot lap, bosom, G. schoss, Goth. skauts the hem of a garnment. Cf. Sheet an expanse.]
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A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid. Specifically:
(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.
An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
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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.
--Totten.
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 a ship.
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 \Scut"tle\, n.
A quick pace; a short run.
--Spectator.
Scuttle \Scut"tle\, n. [AS. scutel a dish, platter; cf. Icel. skutill; both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. scutum a shield. Cf. Skillet.]
A broad, shallow basket.
A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
Scuttle \Scut"tle\, v. i. [For scuddle, fr. scud.] 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.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bucket," late Old English scutel "dish, platter," from Latin scutella "serving platter" (source also of French écuelle, Spanish escudilla, Italian scudella "a plate, bowl"), diminutive of scutra "flat tray, dish," perhaps related to scutum "shield" (see hide (n.1)).\n
\nA common Germanic borrowing from Latin (Old Norse skutill, Middle Dutch schotel, Old High German scuzzila, German Schüssel "a dish"). Meaning "basket for sifting grain" is attested from mid-14c.; sense of "bucket for holding coal" first recorded 1849.
"scamper, scurry," mid-15c., probably related to scud (v.). Related: Scuttled; scuttling.\n\nI should have been a pair of ragged claws \n
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.\n
[T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"]
"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 escotar "cut out," perhaps from e- "out" (see ex-) + Germanic *skaut-. Figurative use is recorded from 1888. Related: Scuttled; scuttling.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal). 2 (context construction English) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building. 3 A broad, shallow basket. Etymology 2
n. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck. vb. 1 (context transitive nautical English) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose. 2 (context transitive English) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner. 3 (context transitive by extension in figurative use English) undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare (term scupper English). Etymology 3
n. A quick pace; a short run. vb. (context intransitive English) To move hastily, to scurry.
WordNet
n. container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire [syn: coal scuttle]
an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship [syn: hatchway, opening]
v. to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter]
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), web-based collaborative bookmarking software
- Scuttle, the bulkhead in a vehicle between the engine and the driver and passengers
- Scuttle shake, a phenomenon experienced in some convertible cars
Scuttle is a PHP/ MySQL-based open source social bookmarking application. It contains code from other PHP-based projects such as Drupal and jQuery.
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.