EGAVE

scuttle

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
  2. noun A broad, shallow basket.
  3. noun A dish, platter or a trencher.
  4. noun A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
  5. noun 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 windscreen wiper motor. By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
  6. noun By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
  7. noun A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
  8. verb To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

Similar words

hatchway skitter scamper scurry opening coal scuttle derail hod dissipate dispel

Often followed by

the and of away in to off back her

Word family

scuttled scuttles scuttling

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