Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A vessel, ordinarily of metal, used for holding coal and putting it on a fire; a coal-hod.

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Examples

  • Quirk: "Keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece."

    Casting the Detectives: Crime Fiction's Biggest Movie Stars Monika Anderson 2012

  • And out towards the coal-scuttle was a region near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain country of rudely piled bricks concealing the most devious and enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • And out towards the coal-scuttle was a region near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain country of rudely piled bricks concealing the most devious and enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper.

    H G Wells, The New Machiavelli (1911) Adam Roberts 2010

  • Power unknown to me, hazily called “The Trade,” that a brass coal-scuttle, a roasting-jack, and a birdcage, were obliged to be put into it to make a Lot of it, and then it went for a song.

    The Haunted House 2007

  • Power unknown to me, hazily called “The Trade,” that a brass coal-scuttle, a roasting-jack, and a birdcage, were obliged to be put into it to make a Lot of it, and then it went for a song.

    The Haunted House 2007

  • He appealed to Trottle, who just then came in with the coal-scuttle, looking, in his nice black suit, like an amiable man putting on coals from motives of benevolence.

    A House to Let 2007

  • Aunt Anne and the Blenheim spaniels, and Mr. Kuhn and his earrings, the majestic John bringing in the coal-scuttle, and all persons or objects in that establishment with which he was familiar.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Crawley, but of Mr. Dawson of Mudbury, and so had a coal-scuttle in her scutcheon.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • She came in herself laughing, with a coal-scuttle out of her own room.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • In two minutes an arm-chair full of magazines, slips of copy, and books for review, was emptied over the neighbouring coal-scuttle, and Clive was in the seat, a cigar in his mouth, as comfortable as if he had never been away.

    The Newcomes 2006

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