-
A small opening or hatch with a movable lid in the deck or hull of a ship or in the roof, wall, or floor of a building.
(noun)
-
The lid or hatch of such an opening.
(noun)
-
Nautical To cut or open a hole or holes in (a ship's hull).
(verb-transitive)
-
Nautical To sink (a ship) by this means.
(verb-transitive)
-
Informal To scrap; discard: "a program [the] President . . . sought to scuttle” ( Christian Science Monitor).
(verb-transitive)
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.