coal scuttle

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   container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire

   Synonymsscuttle

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Questions about coal scuttle

What does coal scuttle mean?

coal scuttle means "container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire".

What is another word for coal scuttle?

Close synonyms include scuttle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coal scuttle a common word?

coal scuttle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.