Real scuttlebutts have long since passed into naval history (though I am told that the word continues to be used in the US Navy for a drinking fountain) and the word has shifted its meaning to the rumour and gossip itself rather than the place where one exchanged it. This is how Herman Melville put it in White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War of 1850: “There is no part of a frigate where you will see more going and coming of strangers, and overhear more greetings and gossipings of acquaintances, than in the immediate vicinity of the scuttle-butt, just forward of the main-hatchway, on the gun-deck.” Today’s office water coolers have pretty much the same ambience. It was the one place where members of the crew on duty in various parts of the ship could meet and talk during the working day.
Fresh water was so precious that a guard was often posted by the scuttlebutt to ensure that water was only taken to drink and not, for example, to wash clothes with. So it became known as the scuttlebutt - the cask with a hatch in it. To make it easier to scoop the water out with a tin pot or dipper, the head of the cask would be removed. It was usual to have a water cask on deck so that the crew had easy access to drinking water during the day. The verb to scuttle dates from the mid 17th century, at first in the sense of sinking a ship specifically by cutting holes in it - today we use it for doing so by any means. 1) The National Defense Strategy identifies four priorities: Deter ring strategic attacks against the United States, our Allies, and our partners Deter ring aggression and prevail ing in conflicts when necessary and. It’s of uncertain origin, but might be from the Old French escoutille, meaning a hatchway. Realize and defend the values at the heart of the American way of life. That’s been around since the fifteenth century, when sailors called any smallish hatchway or opening in the deck a scuttle, especially if it was covered with a lid of some sort it was the usual term for an opening to let in light or air. The sense we want is the one of a hole cut in a ship’s timbers. Nor is it the one that means to move with short quick steps, perhaps like a spider that comes from an old English dialect word. It’s not the flattish open container, made of wickerwork at one time, whose name survives in coal scuttle that’s Old English, from Latin scutella for a dish or platter (its first sense in English).
The first half appears in the language in several senses with different origins, so we have to be sure we’ve got the right one.
in the length of time ,the way they lose paperwork and the down right breakdown of the whole system.maybe people who are in high places will be forced to resign or fired. is run,and the way it is treating us veterans,they had to be finally embarrassed on t.v. Do you have any thoughts on this?Ī The second half is easy enough - a butt is just the old word for a large cask. news outlets are finally investigating the horrible way the v.a. Q From Clair Merritt: My friend and I have been trying to figure out the origin of the word scuttlebutt.
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