| Noun | 1. | scuttle - container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the firecontainer - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | |
| 2. | scuttle - an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a shipentrance, entranceway, entryway, entree, entry - something that provides access (entry or exit); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral" escape hatch - hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency hatch - a movable barrier covering a hatchway | |
| Verb | 1. | scuttle - to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"crab - scurry sideways like a crab run - move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store" | |