scuttle

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On account of its height, the scuttle was also not to be considered Apparently nothing remained to try but the door.

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  1. noun A small opening or hatch with a movable lid in the deck or hull of a ship or in the roof, wall, or floor of a building.
  2. noun The lid or hatch of such an opening.
  3. transitive verb Nautical To cut or open a hole or holes in (a ship's hull).
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  • Whereupon he suddenly discovered that my scuttle was actually full of coal, and proposed to take it round to the studio. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
  • She also had on a hat as big as a kitchen coal-scuttle, and the same shape. —  The Diary of a Nobody
  • The old gentleman knocked over a coal-scuttle, and turned to pick it up. —  Pirate Gold
  • A glance at the fore-scuttle was anything but reassuring, dense clouds of steam and smoke issuing by this time from the opening, and as we looked the smoke suddenly became tinged with the lurid reflection of flames. —  Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
  • A smell compounded of bilge, tar, paint, and other healthy disinfectants emerged as the scuttle was pushed back. —  Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection
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  1. Middle English skottell, from Old French escoutille, possibly from Spanish escotilla.
  2. Middle English scutel, basket, from Old English, dish, from Latin scutella; see scullery.
  3. Middle English scottlen; possibly akin to scud.

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  1. from Middle English scotile, scotylle, from Anglo-Saxon scutel, a dish, bowl, = Dutch schotel = Old High German scuzzilā, Middle High German schüzzel, German schüssel, a dish, = Icelandic skutill, a plate, trencher, = Old French escuelle, French écuelle = Spanish escudilla = Portuguese escudella = Italian scodella, scudella, a plate, bowl, porringer, from Latin scutella, a salver or tray nearly square, also Late Latin a stand for vases, Middle Latin also a platter, plate, dish, diminutive of scutra, also scuta, a tray, platter, dish; prob. allied to scutum, a shield: see scute. Cf. scutella, and cf. skillet, ult. a diminutive form of the same word, and sculler, scullery, from the same Latin source.
  2. Also skuttle; from Old French escoutille, French écoutille (of a ship) = Spanish escotilla = Portuguese escotilha, the scuttle of a ship; a diminutive form, connected with Spanish escotar, cut (clothes so as to fit), slope, orig. cut a hole in a garment to fit the neck or bosom, from escote, the sloping of a jacket, a tucker (cf. escota, the sheet of a sail), from Dutch schoot = Middle Low German schōt, lap, sloping of a jacket, = Old High German scōz, scōzo, scōza, Middle High German schōz, German schoss, lap, flap of a coat, bosom, = Swedish sköte = Danish skjöd, lap, flap of a coat, = Goth, skauts, hem of a garment, = Anglo-Saxon sceát, corner, fold, sheet of a sail: see sheet.
  3. from scuttle, n.
  4. Formerly also skuttle; also scuddle (also assibilated shuttle); freq. of scud, or of the more orig. scoot, shoot: see scud, scoot, and shoot.
  5. Formerly also skuttle; from scuttle, v.
 

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