Definition of "scutter" []

• To move with a clattering, scurrying sound: "The gun scutters over the tiles and lands against the molding of the hallway with a thump” ( Scott Turow). (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A November day, clouds the color of bruises scutter across the sky."
• "I've woken at dawn to a sleeping village, nursed a mug of coffee in the chill of the open cockpit, watched a moorhen scutter across the smoking water, heard church bells chime the hour and felt—as it's so easy to do on the canals—at one with England."
• "Immediately there was a yell - a scutter - a run - a positive tumult."