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scuttler
n. (context historical English) A member of a local youth gang in working-class areas of Manchester, Salford, and surrounding townships during the late 19th century.
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Scuttler (disambiguation)
Scuttler or Scuttlers may refer to:
- Scuttlers, criminals in street gangs in 19th-century Manchester
- In Scuttling of ships, those responsible
- In The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick, a transport device
- In The Elder Scrolls Online, a non-sentient reptile
- Scuttlers (play), a 2015 play by Rona Munro
Usage examples of "scuttler".
Norm and Delink communities when the alien mechanisms had plunged suddenly from the sky but the first sign of change was the unexpected appearance of Scuttlers on the streets, helping in the rescue work.
A world of frozen ice moss, of fist-sized scuttlers called ruks, of the snow worm.
Like all Scuttlers, it took him all his courage to open the door, and when he succeeded there was little reserve left for anything else.
They became at once Scuttlers, terrified unreasoning hysterical psychotics.