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What (who) is magazine scuttle - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Scuttle (disambiguation)
scuttle
scuttle1
¦ noun
1. a metal container with a sloping hinged lid and a handle, used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire.
2. Brit. the part of a car's bodywork between the windscreen and the bonnet.
Origin
OE scutel 'dish, platter', from ON skutill, from L. scutella 'dish'.
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scuttle2
¦ verb run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps.
¦ noun an act or sound of scuttling.
Origin
C15: cf. dialect scuddle, frequentative of scud.
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scuttle3
¦ verb
1. sink (one's own ship) deliberately.
2. deliberately cause (a scheme) to fail.
¦ noun an opening with a lid in a ship's deck or side.
Origin
C15 (asnoun): perh. from OFr. escoutille, from the Sp. dimin. escotilla 'hatchway'.
Scuttle
·noun A broad, shallow basket.
II. Scuttle ·noun A quick pace; a short run.
III. Scuttle ·noun An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
IV. Scuttle ·noun A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
V. Scuttle ·noun A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
VI. Scuttle ·vt To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
VII. Scuttle ·noun The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
VIII. Scuttle ·vt To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
X. Scuttle ·noun 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.
scuttle
(scuttles, scuttling, scuttled)
1.
When people or small animals scuttle somewhere, they run there with short quick steps.
Two very small children scuttled away in front of them...
VERB: V adv/prep
2.
To scuttle a plan or a proposal means to make it fail or cause it to stop.
Such threats could scuttle the peace conference.
= scupper
VERB: V n
3.
To scuttle a ship means to sink it deliberately by making holes in the bottom.
He personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship.
VERB: V n, also V
Wikipedia
Scuttle
Scuttle may refer to:
- Scuttling, the deliberate sinking of one's own ship
- Scuttle or sidescuttle, a synonym for a porthole, a circular window in a 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 (Disney), a character in Disney's Mickey Mouse comics
- Scuttle (horse)
