different between scuttle vs paddle

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)

1. 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.

2. A broad, shallow basket.
3. (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)

1. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
2. (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)

1. (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
2. (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.

3. (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)

1. (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.

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)

1. 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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pædl?/, /?pæ.d?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?p?æ.???]
• Rhymes: -æd?l

Etymology 1

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek ???????? (p?dálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from ????? (p?dós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

Alternative forms

• paidle (obsolete)

Noun

paddle (plural paddles)

1. A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
2. A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
3. Time spent on paddling.

4. A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
5. A paddlewheel.
6. A blade of a waterwheel.
7. (video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
8. (Britain) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
9. A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
10. A bat-shaped spanking implement.

11. A ping pong bat.

    Synonym: racket

12. A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.

13. In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
14. A group of inerts.
15. A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode.
16. (slang) hand
17. (sports) Alternative form of padel

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: paddel, padle

Translations

See also

• oar

Verb

paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)

1. (transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
   • while paddling ducks the standing lake desire

   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX

     Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe […]

2. (intransitive) To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
3. (transitive) To spank with a paddle.
4. To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
5. To tread upon; to trample.

Translations

Etymology 2

Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln (“to tramp about”), frequentative form of padjen (“to tramp, run in short steps”), from pad (also in Dutch dialects). Compare also Saterland Frisian paddelje (“to paddle”).

Verb

paddle (third-person singular simple present paddles, present participle paddling, simple past and past participle paddled)

1. (intransitive, Britain) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
2. To toddle.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To toy or caress using hands or fingers.

Translations

Further reading

• paddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Verb

paddle

1. inflection of paddeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative