scuttle
Speech parts
1. scuttle - Noun
2. scuttle - Verb
Meaning
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.
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so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground
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.
Herbert, worried that they might try to scuttle the steamer, ordered his men to open fire with small arms, killing all in the water.
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.
Historians accuse the Scindia dynasty of joining hands with the British to scuttle the sepoy mutiny which started on May 10 in 1857.
The marines broke down the door with the butts of their rifles, but Wegener squeezes through a scuttle and dropped into the sea.