scuttle3 (skutl)

[Formerly also skuttle; From Twelve to One. Shut myself up in my Chamber, practised Lady Betty Modely's Skuttle . Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [I. 92. She went with an easy scuttle out of the shop. Spectator . scuttle-butt (skut'l-but), n. Naut . , a cask or butt having a scuttle or hole cut in it for the She, wen the pan was brimful, Would me you up in scuttle dishes, Syne bid us sup till we were fou. Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 273).