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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A spelling of scuttle, scuttle.

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Examples

  • No rly, yu shud get taht lukked at – shall Ai taek teh cole skuttle off yur hed?

    Here is da Church - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • You skuttle his plans by writing about the very same subject days before.

    Play Nice 2006

  • All through dinner — which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin — Mrs. Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition.

    Bleak House 2007

  • I would have no idea why she wouldn't I made a big enoughstink about it that there should have been some skuttle butt about it from the U.S.Justice Department to KIMT TV and on to the Iowa Justice Departmen but no one is acting on it.

    Connie Chung Saves TV News - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

  • Tracked one night by the soldiers to the house of one of these friends, in whose garret he was concealed, he was obliged to force the skuttle, and running along the roof, passed to those of adjoining houses to the number of ten or twelve, finally succeeding in making his escape.

    Israel Potter Herman Melville 1855

  • All through dinner -- which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin -- Mrs. Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • Her dress was of a sombre hue and chargeable with no unnecessary amplitude; where it was pulled up at the sides a gray balmoral petticoat was visible; crinoline had been scrupulously renounced (as it should be in a sick-chamber); the coal-skuttle bonnet performed its legitimate duty in shading her face as well as covering her head.

    Fairy Fingers A Novel Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie 1844

  • All through dinner -- which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin -- Mrs. Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition.

    Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841

  • Peace, peace, my friends; skip and skuttle about, young rabbits; nibble away, middle-aged hares, -- don't put yourselves the least out of the way, you won't have any of my powder.

    Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840

  • I mind once a British man-o'-war took one of our Boston vessels, and ordered all hands on board, and sent a party to skuttle her; well, they skuttled the fowls and the old particular genuine rum, but they obliviated their arrand and left her.

    The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

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