scutter
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of scutter
First recorded in 1775–85; variant of scuttle 2
Example Sentences
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These venomous pencil-length arthropods scutter beneath the leaves of East Asian and Australian forests, their black, multisegmented bodies and bright red pincers hidden from view.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 12, 2023
I wondered what was up that he should look so scared, and scutter away as though the deuce was after him; I wondered whether he had quarreled with Afy.
From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
Things boom overhead like bitterns, or scutter alongside like hares, or arise dripping and hissing from below like otters.
From Sea Warfare by Kipling, Rudyard
At sunrise the river would shoulder her carefully into her place, and listen to the rush and scutter of the pack fleeing up the gang-plank, and the tramp of the Governor's Arab behind them.
From Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard
The rats, perhaps, that scutter in the wainscot.
From Christmas Entertainments by Kellogg, Alice Maude
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