Definition of Scuttler

1. one who scuttles [n -S] - See also: scuttles

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scuttler

scutiform
scutiger
scutigers
scutiped
scuts
scutter
scuttered
scuttering
scutters
scutting
scuttle
scuttled
scuttler (current term)
scuttlers
scuttles
scuttling
scutular
scutulum
scutum
scutwork
scutworks
scuzz
scuzzball
scuzzbucket
scuzzbuckets
scuzzes

Literary usage of Scuttler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"He travelled to India and back in company with fourteen pipes of Madeira (on board of the ' Samuel Snob' East Indiaman, Captain scuttler), and spent the ..."

2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"... bit of natural history; and Captain Davis went out of court more than suspected by the dry-land world of being something in the way of a ship-scuttler. ..."

3. MERRIE ENGLAND by Robert Blatchford (1895)
"... let the more criminal and more dangerous sweater rob and slay, I cannot understand why it is necessary to interfere with the footpad and the scuttler. ..."

4. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1866)
"... not that their navy was being scattered in its very dock by an unknown enemy, for he had neither seen the scuttler nor suspected what had been going on, ..."

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