scuttle

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , diminutive form of , perhaps related to ; compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun



 * 1) A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
 * 2) A broad, shallow basket.
 * 3)  A dish, platter or a trencher.
 * 1) A broad, shallow basket.
 * 2)  A dish, platter or a trencher.

Usage notes
The sense of "dish, platter" survives in compounds like scuttle-dish (a large dish).

Translations

 * Bulgarian: кофа за въглища
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, kolenemmer,
 * Finnish: hiilisanko,
 * German:, , Kohlenschütte
 * Greek:
 * Norman: boête à tchèrbon
 * Serbo-Croatian: vedro za ugljen
 * Swedish: kolhink

Etymology 2
Borrowed from (compare 🇨🇬), from, or alternatively from , ultimately from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1) A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
 * 2)  A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
 * 1)  A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.

Synonyms

 * roof hatch

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: kattoluukku
 * German:, Ausstiegsluke, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
 * 2)  To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
 * 3)  To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
 * 4)  To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
 * 1)  To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
 * 2)  To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
 * 1)  To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
 * 2)  To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
 * 1)  To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
 * 2)  To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
 * 1)  To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: отварям люковете
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: autoaffondarsi
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: whakatotohu
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: potopiť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: borra i sank
 * Turkish:

Etymology 3
See.

Verb

 * 1)  To move hastily, to scurry.

Usage notes
The word "scuttle" carries a crab-like connotation, and is mainly used to describe panic-like movements of the legs, akin to crabs' leg movements.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, , , , , , , , , davonflitzen
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: sciurd, scinn
 * Maori: tuoma, karapetapeta, takawhiti
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,

Noun

 * 1) A quick pace; a short run.

Derived terms

 * scuttle fly