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scuttle
has definitions from the field of nautical
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[ verb ] to move about or proceed hurriedly
Examples : "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground." Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)And if it was not an individual who was in the dock , why was the Trial , as we shall observe later , all_but scuttled in the attempt to prove Eichmann a `` fiend '' ? |
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[ noun ] container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
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