What is "scuttled"

Usage examples of "scuttled".

But as the orniths approached, coelurosaurs scuttled away and pterosaurs flapped awkwardly into the air.

Between these stately fleets scuttled cruder craft, rafts of mangrove and bamboo and reed.

Under the broad fronds of a ground fern she scuttled uneasily through a patch of direct sunlight.

Some of them scuttled along branches, racing from shaded cover to cover.

She scuttled over the branches to Patch, and dug her fingers into fur that was still moist and began to comb out tangles and bits of debris.

But a scorpion scuttled out from beneath the rock, and Finger fled, hooting.

More than seven feet in length, not including their fanlike tails and long antennae, they scuttled along on several pairs of small, curved legs.

Two small boats, bottoms up, emerged from the thick smoke and scuttled toward the river like bugs—large bugs that boasted three pairs of purple-clad legs each.

Themo's lizard scuttled over to the battlefield and nosed aside one of its comrades.

Off it scuttled, scolding the half-elf as if she had been the source of its misery all along.

Thick black ink jetted through the water as the wounded creature scuttled away.

And sprawled upon the bed was the singer, who kept time to his music by tossing bits of moldy bread to the creatures that scuttled about the floor of the cell.

Dimly Rethnor was aware of the skinny young pirate who scuttled in to claim the grim trophy, only to hurl it into the sea.

Then he came upon the charred ruins of the ship that Liriel's magic had set aflame, and the remains of the vessel that he himself had scuttled, and he had no more time to devote to such musings.

No seabirds wheeled and quarreled overhead, no crabs scuttled along the still-damp sand.