noun

• (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.

noun

• (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
• (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
• (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.

verb

• (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
• (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
  "The Vichy French fleet in Toulon in 1942 scuttled itself as a final "fuck you" to the invading Germans."
• (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
  "The third and equally important fact is that at the time of gear retraction more than ample runway remained to brake to a successful stop and even had there been a fire in the left engine no necessity existed for scuttling the aircraft."
• (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
  "The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst."

verb

• (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
  "With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron."