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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
- A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
- A quick pace; a short run.
- (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
- A broad, shallow basket.
Verb
- (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry
- (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
- (transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.
Exempel
- The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
- In this version, the Patriot was boarded by pirates (or the crew and passengers were overpowered by mutineers), who murdered everyone and then looted and scuttled the ship.
- To lay the foundation for an all-weather dock at Shelter Bay, he filled an old barge with worn-out grindstones from the Thorold paper mill, then scuttled the vessel.
- He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore.
- In recent years, steel-hull vessels up to 350 feet long have been scuttled in stable sandy-bottom areas, amassing new communities of fish and invertebrates and easing the stress and strain on the coral reef by creating new fishing and diving sites.
- The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.
- Morel scuttled out of the house before his wife came down.
- there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.
- With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.
- A scuttle is a small hole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for ventilation.
- “Well, we can stash the boat …but probably smarter to scuttle. Yeah, that’s what we’ll do.”
- Il se précipita vers le fond de la caverne, y trouva un os de chevreuil où restait quelque viande, s’assit et en fit craquer le bout avec délices.
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