scuttle
scuttle is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A broad, shallow basket. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A broad, shallow basket.
- noun. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
- intransitive verb. To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
- noun. A quick pace; a short run.
- noun. A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
- noun. 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.
- noun. An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
- noun. The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
- transitive verb. To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- transitive verb. To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.
- noun. an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- noun. container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
- verb. to move about or proceed hurriedly
"so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"
Synonyms
hatchway, opening, scamper, scurry, skitter
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scuttle:
Common word forms
scuttled, scuttler, scuttles, scuttling, scuttleful
Words from these letters
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