scuttle
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- n container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
- n an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- v to move about or proceed hurriedly
- He debated three plans: 1) to make the guardsmen walk the plank; 2) to fire his own boat and set them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard.
- But political infighting could yet scuttle the deal once it goes to a vote in parliament, perhaps in early March, say the law's detractors.
- Christopher Morris VII for PTI For scholars of the presidency, Kennedy's failure to scuttle or fix the ill-conceived invasion of Cuba is a classic case of the insufficiency of .