0 to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape: --
1 to intentionally sink a ship, especially your own, in order to prevent it from being taken by an enemy --
2 to stop something happening, or to cause a plan to fail --
3 a coal scuttle --
5 to give up a plan or activity, or spoil a possibility for success: --
As we are considering not only dustbins, but buckets, pails, sanitary bins, and coal scuttles it will be necessary to broaden the debate.
The heaters could then be turned into useful cupboards in the home in which to store, for example, coal scuttles.
He scuttled from one set of topics to another as quickly as possible.
I can see no other reason why they scuttled and ran.
If we could get the shipbuilders and ship owners together it might be possible to get standardisation of bollards, scuttles, small pumps and the like.
Had we been in office we would have been told that we were "scuttling" from these places.
They have adopted the method of scuttling their undertakings.
Thirty transports and store ships have been sunk, scuttled, or set on fire, with a loss of several thousands of lives.
