Lexicographical Neighbors of Skuttles
Literary usage of Skuttles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum: For the Public Functionary by John Borthwick Gilchrist (1825)
"In bad weather, however, when the port is shut, cabins that have only skuttles,
about one-fourth the size of a port-hole, become preferable; especially if ..."
2. Beaumont and Fletcher: Or, The Finest Scenes, Lyrics, and Other Beauties of by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1862)
"... carried from one house to another during visits (a common custom with the
greatest in those days), had the charge of the pots, kettles, coal-skuttles, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... she could do a score of odd jobs in the house or out of it ; she could wash
the potatoes, and turn the roasts, and rill the skuttles. ..."
4. The Tatler by Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Richard Steele (1822)
"... and skuttles from place to place, to despatch his necessary affairs in painful
daylight, that he may return to ..."
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