scuttle
/ˈskʌt.l̩/ noun C2- A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
- 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.
- By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
- A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
Plural scuttles
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But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
He looked round him at the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals, the violin-case leaning in the corner, the coal-scuttle, which contained of old the pipes and tobacco.
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