Scuttle

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A broad, shallow basket.

2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A quick pace; a short run. Spectator.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid. Specifically:

2. An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.

3. The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like. Scuttle butt, or Scuttle cask (Naut.), a butt or cask with a large hole in it, used to contain the fresh water for daily use in a ship. Totten.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle. With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron. Sir W. Scott.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

2. To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.