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Definition of the day : « scuttle »

  • verb destroy
  • verb hurry
Example sentences :
  • Together they proceeded to the roof by a stairway that led to a scuttle.
  • Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
  • You are at liberty to embark in them with your men before we scuttle this ship.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Her sails were furled; the slide of her scuttle hatch was closed and padlocked.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • Stapylton, scuttle the ship, if you like, but first let me land the cargo.
  • Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
  • I had a notion, from the beginning, they wouldn't be allowed to scuttle.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 » by Various
  • Taking a bucket and a lantern, he passed into the steerage, and opened the scuttle.
  • Extract from : « Down the Rhine » by Oliver Optic
  • Going forward to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open.
  • Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
  • I closed the scuttle, and retired from its vicinity to the end of the storehouse.
  • Extract from : « Seek and Find » by Oliver Optic
  • Glad he was to be free of it all, and he let the scuttle fall to with a bang.
  • Extract from : « The Doomsman » by Van Tassel Sutphen
  • She felt it grow tense at a tiny squeak and scuttle, but she kept still.
  • Extract from : « Shapes that Haunt the Dusk » by Various