1. scuttle - Noun
2. scuttle - Verb
A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
A quick pace; a short run.
A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
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.
An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
Source: Webster's dictionaryso terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground Source: Internet
At the same time, that could scuttle the Trump administration’s efforts to make Oklahoma a test case for its plan to transform the entitlement program into a block grant. Source: Internet
Herbert, worried that they might try to scuttle the steamer, ordered his men to open fire with small arms, killing all in the water. Source: Internet
McGill & Norris (2007) pp. 320-1 Aftermath In Herbert's report to the Admiralty, he stated he feared the survivors from the U-boat's crew would board the freighter and scuttle her, so he ordered the Royal Marines on his ship to shoot the survivors. Source: Internet
Historians accuse the Scindia dynasty of joining hands with the British to scuttle the sepoy mutiny which started on May 10 in 1857. Source: Internet
The marines broke down the door with the butts of their rifles, but Wegener squeezes through a scuttle and dropped into the sea. Source: Internet