scuttle

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.1.1 Translations 1.5 References 1.6 Anagrams

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• Rhymes: -ʌtəl

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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.

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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].

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scuttle (plural scuttles)

1. A small hatch or opening in a boat.

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to 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.
2. (by extension, in figurative use) Intentionally undermine or thwart oneself, or denigrate or destroy one’s position or property; cf. scupper.

   The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.

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

1. (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry

   The cockroach scuttled under the kitchen sink.

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• Notes:

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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• Anagrams of celsttu
• cutlets