0 present participle of scuttle --
1 to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape: --
2 to intentionally sink a ship, especially your own, in order to prevent it from being taken by an enemy --
3 to stop something happening, or to cause a plan to fail --
Other extensions of control relate to scuttling, deposit from floating containers, and foreign vessels.
He is just beginning to retreat, and in a very short time he will be scuttling away amid the jeers of his supporters.
Enemy merchant ships were under instructions to avoid capture at all costs and, if necessary, to resort to scuttling.
First, deposit from floating containers and the scuttling of vessels, together with their related activities of towing and propelling, are included for the first time.
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.
At times, indeed, their policy has seemed suspiciously like one of scuttling away from our responsibilities behind a smoke screen of bluster.
Here we are, microscopic creatures scuttling about on the surface of a minor planet circling round a second-rate star in one of halt-a-million galaxies.
