a broad, shallow basket.-a wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.-to run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.-a quick pace; a short run.-a small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.-a small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.-an opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.-the lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.-to cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.-to sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.