A lid or hatch for covering and closing the scuttles when necessary.
·noun A broad, shallow basket. II. Scuttle ·noun A quick pace; a short run. III. Scuttle ·noun An ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
To scuttle off; to run away. To scuttle a ship; to make a hole in her bottom in order to sink her. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
I. A small hole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for ventilation. That ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A flood gate; a a sluice gate. II. Hatch ·noun A <<Bedstead>>. III. Hatch ·noun Development;...
A half-door. A contrivance for trapping salmon. (See heck.) ...
A framing composed of coamings and head-ledges raised above the deck, with a top which shuts closely...
To cut or bore holes through part of a ship when she is stranded or over-set, and continues to float...
·noun A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; — used mostly in the fisheries...
To go to the manor of pickt hatch, a cant name for some part of the town noted for bawdy houses in S...
A smaller kind of companion, but readily removable; it is in use for merchantmen's half decks, and l...
To secure the hatches; are padlocked and sealed. ...
A sort of small vessel known as a pilot-boat, having a deck composed almost entirely of hatches. ...
Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. ...
Rings to lift the hatches by, or replace them. ...
A word of caution to the helmsman, not to let the ship fall to leeward of her course. ...