scuttle

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[edit] Etymology 1

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[edit] Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

  1. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
  2. (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
[edit] Translations
a container like an open bucket

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle French ( > French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”)[1], akin to Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), German Schoß[2].

[edit] Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

  1. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
[edit] Translations
a small hatch or opening in a boat

[edit] Verb

scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)

  1. (transitive) To deliberately sink a ship or boat by order of the commander, rather than by enemy action; generally done when the ship's capture was imminent.
  2. (by extension, in figurative use) Intentionally undermine or thwart oneself, or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.
    The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.
[edit] Translations
To deliberately sink a ship or boat by order of the commander

[edit] Etymology 3

[edit] Verb

scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)

  1. (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3
      there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.
[edit] Translations
To move hastily, to scurry

[edit] References

  1. ^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 360, écoutille
  2. ^ scuttle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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