meaning of scuttle
1. A broad, shallow basket.
2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
3. To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
4. A quick pace; a short run.
5. A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
6. 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.
7. An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
8. The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
9. To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
10. To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
11. an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
Related Words
scuttle | scuttlebutt | scuttled |
