scuttler

• “Reed Bunting            sedge-scuttler; swayer; a cool perch”

  The Guardian: Poem of the week: A Trace of Wings by Edwin Morgan

• “The little Guyanan had batted with his usual, self-effacing brilliance until he was lbw to a scuttler.”

  The Guardian: Somerset have a first championship in sight after beating Lancashire

• “In today's Daily Mail Harry Redknapp could be set to pay £15m for irresistible Hispanic goal-scuttler Diego Forlán, who is considering leaving Atlético Madrid.”

  The Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Diego Forlán to Tottenham Hotspur?

• “In the first place, two vile wretches — Rickon Goold, the ship-scuttler, and John”

  Mary Anerley

• “When he had heard, Matthias scowled into the fire and directed the scuttler robot to poke it up and throw on another log.”

  The Stars Are Also Fire

• “When he had heard, Matthias scowled into the fire and directed the scuttler robot to poke it up and throw THE STARS ARE ALSO FIRE 493 on another log.”

  The Stars Are Also Fire

• “You're improvin 'from a scuttler to a first-class fighting man;”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893

• “Edmond Fitzmaurice: "I'm as great a jingo in Central Asia as I am a scuttler in South Africa.”

  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1

• “Under the experienced counsel of the old gray scuttler of innocent companies, this procedure was resolved upon.”

  The President A novel

• “In the first place, two vile wretches -- Rickon Goold, the ship-scuttler, and John Cadman, the murderer -- supposing that Dr. Upandown and Mrs. Carroway are right.”

  Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale

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