Definition of "scuttle-butt" []

• Alternative spelling of scuttlebutt. (noun)

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• "In this manner, they passed the buckets to fill the scuttle-butt."
• "It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail."
• "So I ran lightly along in the shelter of the lee bulwark, dodging past the galley, the scuttle-butt, and the cabin in turn."