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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 scut·tle /ˈskʌtḷ/
 煤桶,急速逃走,天窗,小艙口(vi.)急速逃走,急忙撤退(vt.)鑿沈,毀壞,毀壞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scut·tle n.
 1. A broad, shallow basket.
 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scut·tle, v. i.  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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scut·tle, n. A quick pace; a short run.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scut·tle n.
 1. A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid. Specifically: (a) Naut. 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. (b) An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
 2. 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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scut·tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scuttled p. pr. & vb. n. Scuttling.]
 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 scuttle
      n 1: container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto
           the fire [syn: coal scuttle]
      2: an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway
         between decks of a ship [syn: hatchway, opening]
      v : to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the
          extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to
          higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter]