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scuttle
English
Alternative forms
- skuttle
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sk?t?l/, [?sk?t??], [?sk?t??]
- (US) IPA(key): /?sk?t?l/, [?sk????], [?sk????]
- Rhymes: -?t?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English scuttel, scutel, from Old English scutel (“dish, platter”), from Latin scutella, diminutive form of Latin scutra (“flat tray, dish”), perhaps related to Latin scutum (“shield”); compare Dutch schotel and German Schüssel.
Noun
scuttle (plural scuttles)
- A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:
- 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.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:
- A broad, shallow basket.
- (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
Usage notes
The sense of "dish, platter" survives in compounds like scuttle-dish (a large dish).
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic ???????????????????????? (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English s??at. More at sheet.
Noun
scuttle (plural scuttles)
- A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
- (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
Synonyms
- (hatch that provides access to the roof): roof hatch
Translations
Verb
scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)
- (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
- 2002, Richard Côté, Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy, Corinthian Books (2002), ?ISBN, page 325:
- In this version, the Patriot was boarded by pirates (or the crew and passengers were overpowered by mutineers), who murdered everyone and then looted and scuttled the ship.
- 2003, Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955, Northwestern University Press (2003), ?ISBN, page 238:
- To lay the foundation for an all-weather dock at Shelter Bay, he filled an old barge with worn-out grindstones from the Thorold paper mill, then scuttled the vessel.
- 2007, Michael Mueller, Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster, Naval Institute Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 17:
- He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore.
- 2009, Nancy Toppino, Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West, Insiders' Guide (2009), ?ISBN, page 227:
- In recent years, steel-hull vessels up to 350 feet long have been scuttled in stable sandy-bottom areas, amassing new communities of fish and invertebrates and easing the stress and strain on the coral reef by creating new fishing and diving sites.
- 2002, Richard Côté, Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy, Corinthian Books (2002), ?ISBN, page 325:
- (transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.
- The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.
Translations
Etymology 3
See scuddle.
Verb
scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)
- (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3
- there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8
- Morel scuttled out of the house before his wife came down.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3
Usage notes
The word "scuttle" carries a crab-like connotation, and is mainly used to describe panic-like movements of the legs, akin to crabs' leg movements.
Translations
Noun
scuttle (plural scuttles)
- A quick pace; a short run.
Further reading
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- An historical dictionary
- The English Dialect Dictionary
- Scuttle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
References
Anagrams
- cutlets, cuttles
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lunge
English
Alternative forms
- longe (US)
Etymology
From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?
Noun
lunge (plural lunges)
- A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
- An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
- A fish, the namaycush.
Derived terms
- lunge whip
Translations
Verb
lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
- I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
- 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
- With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
- (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
Translations
Anagrams
- Leung
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l???]
Noun
lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)
- (anatomy) lung
Inflection
Derived terms
- lungebetændelse
- lungekapacitet
- lungekræft
- lungetransplantation
References
- “lunge” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “lunge” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lun.d??e/
- Hyphenation: lùn?ge
Adverb
lunge
- Archaic form of lungi.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.
Noun
lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
- (anatomy) a lung
Derived terms
- lungebetennelse
- lungekreft
- lungeskade
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²l????/
Noun
lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
- (anatomy) a lung
Derived terms
- lungebetennelse
- lungekreft
- lungeskade
Further reading
- “lunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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