scuttle
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L327337 on Wikidata ↗verb
- to run with quick, hurried steps
- sink, as a ship
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈskʌt.l̩/
noun
Etymology: See scuddle.
- A quick pace; a short run.
“She scarce gave me time to return her salute, before she quitted the shop with an easy scuttle, and stepped again into her coach”
verb
Etymology: See scuddle.
- To move hastily, to scurry.
“With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.”
“there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.”