Scuttle (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Scuttle

To scuttle off; to run away. To scuttle a ship; to make a hole in her bottom in order to sink her.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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