scuttle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).

   “All through dinner—which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin—Mrs. Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition.”

2. isim A broad, shallow basket.
3. isim A dish, platter or a trencher.
4. isim A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
5. isim 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.
6. isim By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
7. isim A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
8. fiil To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
9. fiil To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.

   “The Vichy French fleet in Toulon in 1942 scuttled itself as a final "fuck you" to the invading Germans.”

10. fiil To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).

    “The third and equally important fact is that at the time of gear retraction more than ample runway remained to brake to a successful stop and even had there been a fire in the left engine no necessity existed for scuttling the aircraft.”

11. fiil To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.

    “The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.”

12. fiil To move hastily, to scurry.

    “With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.”

13. isim 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”