scuttle

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scuttle1

▶noun

• 1 a metal container with a sloping hinged lid and a handle, used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire.

• 2 Brit. the part of a car's bodywork between the windscreen and the bonnet.

– origin OE scutel ‘dish, platter’, from ON skutill, from L. scutella ‘dish’.

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scuttle2

▶verb run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps. ▶noun an act or sound of scuttling.

– origin C15: cf. dial. scuddle, frequentative of scud.

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scuttle3

▶verb

• 1 sink (one's own ship) deliberately.

• 2 deliberately cause (a scheme) to fail.

▶noun an opening with a lid in a ship's deck or side.

– origin C15 (as n.): perh. from OFr. escoutille, from the Sp. dimin. escotilla ‘hatchway’.