scuttle
suomi-englanti sanakirjascuttle englannista suomeksi
singahtaa, kipittää
luukku
sanko
scuttle englanniksi
A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
(RQ:Dickens Bleak House)
(RQ:Nesbit New Treasure Seekers)
A broad, shallow basket.
A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
(quote-book)
A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the wiper motor.
By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
(ux)
(quote-book)|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3067/3067-h/3067-h.htm|passage="My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate. His character is known; he scuttles all the ships he boards, dishonours the women, and murders the crew."
{{quote-book|en|year=2002|author=Richard Côté|title=Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ncpVhnKIgrAC&pg=PA325|page=325|publisher=Corinthian Books|year_published=2002|isbn=9781929175314
{{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Richard Norton Smith|title=The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=0tIW6XTGsOAC&pg=PA238|page=238|publisher=Northwestern University Press|year_published=2003|isbn=0810120399
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Michael Mueller|title=Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=9WGAexVXyHwC&pg=PA17|page=17|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year_published=2007|isbn=9781591141013
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Nancy Toppino|title=Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=eDr15zYGpYkC&pg=PA227|page=227|publisher=Insiders' Guide|year_published=2009|isbn=9780762748716
To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
(syn)
(cot)
(quote-journal)
(RQ:Scott Waverley)
(RQ:Falkner Moonfleet)
(RQ:Lawrence Sons and Lovers)
*(RQ:Walliams Bad Dad)
A quick pace; a short run.
(RQ:Spectator)