Crossword-Solution: SCUTTLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Scuttle | n. | A broad, shallow basket. |
| Scuttle | n. | A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod. |
| Scuttle | v. i. | To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle. |
| Scuttle | n. | A quick pace; a short run. |
| Scuttle | n. | A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid. |
| Scuttle | n. | A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship. |
| Scuttle | n. | An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid. |
| Scuttle | n. | The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like. |
| Scuttle | v. t. | To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose. |
| Scuttle | v. t. | To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCUTTLE | anagram | CUTLETS, CUTTLES |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SCUTTLE (5)
There was a garret above, pierced with a scuttle over his head; and down through this scuttle came a cat, suspended around the haunches by a string; she had a rag tied about her head and jaws to keep her from mewing; as she slowly descended she curved upward and clawed at the string, she swung downward and clawed at the intangible air.
The cat who lived on the premises, preferring to be dirty rather than to be wet, had got into the coal scuttle, and over its rim watched her sleepily with a long, complacent purr.
The idea of losing that sixty thousand dollars, of letting it utterly slide and scuttle and never hearing of it again, seemed the sweetest thing in the world.
Once, when an odd-looking craft, with a vast coal-scuttle slanting aloft on the end of a beam, was steaming by in the distance, he indifferently drew attention to it, as one might to an object grown wearisome through familiarity, and observed that it was an 'alligator boat.' 'An alligator boat? What's it for?' 'To dredge out alligators with.' 'Are they so thick as to be troublesome?' 'Well, not now, because the Government keeps them down.
Then she got men to scuttle all the boats on the shore, because she knew beforehand that Cormac and his folk were coming.
Quotes with SCUTTLE (3)
Unstrained, I sit and gaze, glare, survey, starethrough barred windows encased in embroidered steel. Pearly frosted dust obstructs the channels of light, leaving only small pillars of fire, arranged in disordered fragments. The antiquated sallow walls are stained with crimson braids that wreathe and scuttle about the rimes and rifts.
Too ridged an image of how things should be can completely scuttle any potential success.
In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).