skuttle

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A form of scuttle — A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).

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Meanings

nounskuttle (plural skuttles)

plural skuttles

  1. archaicArchaic form of scuttle.

    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.

    1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
verbskuttle (third-person singular simple present skuttles, present participle skuttling, simple past and past participle skuttled)

present singular third person skuttles · participle present skuttling · participle past skuttled · past skuttled

  1. archaicArchaic form of scuttle.
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APA

skuttle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skuttle

MLA

“skuttle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skuttle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skuttle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skuttle.

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