Scuttling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCUTTLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps
• deliberately cause (a scheme) to fail
• sink (one's own ship) deliberately by holing it or opening its seacocks to let water in
NOUN:
• he act of sinking a ship deliberately
• a metal container with a handle, used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire.
• the amount of coal held in a scuttle
• an act or sound of scuttling
• act of scuttling
• the part of a car's bodywork between the windscreen and the bonnet.
• an opening with a cover in a ship's deck or side
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to scurry

Words related to SCUTTLING

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How to use SCUTTLING in a sentence

• Immediately afterward, I heard something scuttling away among the bushes.
• He heard others scuttling and squeaking, and one threw a chunk of gray moss at him.
• All was very quiet except for the ripple of the tide and the noise made by the scuttling crabs.
• There was a scuttling in the corners as the seconds cleared out through the ropes, taking with them the stools and buckets.
• All along the many corridors I heard the tinkling of a dinner-bell and a scuttling of many feet.
• I could hear somebody scuttling about within, as though carrying things about, and I knocked again.
• Suddenly the scuttling crab disappeared and he started up with a whine.
• I went up the companion again, and as my eyes came up flush with the deck, a thundering great crab gave a kind of hysterical jump and went scuttling off sideways.
• Coal, iron nuts, stones, and other serious projectiles were thrown with a hearty good-will, and soon the crew and the passengers of the Noa-Noa were scuttling for safety.
• At each heavy fling of the ship they would groan all together in the dark, and tons of water could be heard scuttling about as if trying to get at them from above.
• It kept them all amused by the happy, ridiculous little sounds it made, giggling and scuttling and fluttering about in the basket.
• He was peering after me from among the rocks, and, as I turned, he was scuttling away into the tunnel.
• She began scuttling about, picking up imaginary litter and sweeping with an imaginary broom.
• After setting fire to and scuttling the ship, the crew took to their boats, landing at Barrow Island, where they buried their money in the sand.
• Filling the long-boat with dollars, weighing some two tons, they rowed ashore, after killing the two boys and scuttling the ship.
• Beyond the batteries the fleet anchored with its prizes, plundering and scuttling with all its might, till the flood came in again.
• Then, in spite of the labors of the past night, the plundering, scuttling, and burning began again.
• Indeed, except a few poor, desolate peasant folk, burned black with the sun, scuttling from den to den at the sight of mounted men, we had not seen any living creatures.
• He tried to follow the sound of the scuttling in one of the recesses where the animal seemed to be running behind the books in the shelves, but it was impossible to locate it.
• He had just got to the top when the lights went out a second time, and he heard again the scuttling along the floor.
• After her went Mike, scuttling away from his cabin with his rifle swinging from his right hand, his left fumbling the buttons on his coat.
• His driver had jumped down from his seat and was scuttling madly up the street.
• In a few minutes he again went below and assisted in working the engine, and giving directions for scuttling on the larboard side, where the smoke appeared most dense.

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