Scuttle-butt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scuttle-butt is a noun meaning Alternative form of scuttlebutt.
Meaning
Alternative form of scuttlebutt.
Example Sentences
In this way, with an occasional break by relieving the wheel, heaving the log, and going to the scuttle-butt for a drink of water, the longest watch was passed away; […]
[T]he scuttle-butts are on the starboard side of the galley. You will find a bottle on one of them that will serve as a dipper. Drink moderately, for your life's sake, and get a pannikin from the galley and bring it aft, filled.
It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail. In this manner, they passed the buckets to fill the scuttle-butt.
[S]o they continue to fire as directed, until they are either sent down to the cock-pit themselves, or have a momentary respite from their exertions, when, choaked with smoke and gunpowder, they go aft to the scuttle-butt, to remove their parching thirst.
Word Forms
- scuttle-butts
- scuttle-butting
- scuttle-butted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scuttlebutt, scuttlebug, scuttle, scuttling, cock-boat, butt.
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