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scuttle
  1. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
  2. A broad, shallow basket.
  3. (obsolete, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
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    1. “Earlier in the day, I visited Little Water Cay, where I could hear the scuttle of endangered rock iguanas mixing with the waves.”
scuttle
  1. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
  2. (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
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    1. “Earlier in the day, I visited Little Water Cay, where I could hear the scuttle of endangered rock iguanas mixing with the waves.”
scuttling
  1. The motion of one who scuttles.
  2. The act by which a vessel is scuttled.
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scuttlebutt
  1. (informal, uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.
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    1. “Asked to rubbish this scurrilous piece of scuttlebutt BT has sheepishly acknowledged that it is true.”
      “I hear scuttlebutt that you got an eyes-only message from High Command over the hyperwave.”
      “Yet the 61-year-old Diller insists there was never anything to the scuttlebutt.”
scuttleful
  1. Enough to fill a scuttle.
scuttle
  1. A quick pace; a short run.
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    1. “Earlier in the day, I visited Little Water Cay, where I could hear the scuttle of endangered rock iguanas mixing with the waves.”
scuttlebutts
scuttlesful
  1. plural of scuttleful
scuttlefuls
  1. plural of scuttleful
scuttlings
scuttles
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