Know your Nautical terminology
Today we have three related terms.
scuttle
1. A small opening, or lid thereof, in a ship's deck or hull.
2. To sink a vessel deliberately.
scuttlebutt
1. A barrel with a hole in it, used to hold water that sailors would drink from. By extension (in modern naval usage), a shipboard drinking fountain or water cooler.
2. Slang for gossip.
scuttling
Making a hole in the hull of a vessel or opening seacocks, especially in order to sink a vessel deliberately.
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