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Grammar : Verb
Spell : skuht-l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈskʌt l

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Définition of scuttle

Origin :
  • "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)).
  • A common Germanic borrowing from Latin (cf. 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.
  • verb destroy
  • verb hurry
Example sentences :
  • Together they proceeded to the roof by a stairway that led to a scuttle.
  • Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
  • You are at liberty to embark in them with your men before we scuttle this ship.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Her sails were furled; the slide of her scuttle hatch was closed and padlocked.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • Stapylton, scuttle the ship, if you like, but first let me land the cargo.
  • Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
  • I had a notion, from the beginning, they wouldn't be allowed to scuttle.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 » by Various
  • Taking a bucket and a lantern, he passed into the steerage, and opened the scuttle.
  • Extract from : « Down the Rhine » by Oliver Optic
  • Going forward to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open.
  • Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
  • I closed the scuttle, and retired from its vicinity to the end of the storehouse.
  • Extract from : « Seek and Find » by Oliver Optic
  • Glad he was to be free of it all, and he let the scuttle fall to with a bang.
  • Extract from : « The Doomsman » by Van Tassel Sutphen
  • She felt it grow tense at a tiny squeak and scuttle, but she kept still.
  • Extract from : « Shapes that Haunt the Dusk » by Various

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