scuttles (skutl)

i.; pret. and pp. scuttled, ppr. scuttling. [Formerly also skuttle; also scuddle (also a ibilated shuttle ); freq. of scud, or of the more orig. scoot, shoot: see scud, scoot1, and shoot.] To run hurriedly, or with short, hurried steps; hurry. I have no inclination to scuttle barefoot after a Duke of Wolfenbuttle's army. Walpole , Letters, II. 476. No mother nor brother viper of the brood Shall scuttle off without the instructive bruise. Browning, Ring and Book, I. 286.