scuttle, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

scuttle v.

[SE scuttle, to make a hole in a ship’s bottom in order to sink her]

1. (US Und.) to slice into a pocket so as to steal the contents.

1859

Matsell Vocabulum 78: scuttle to cut a pocket.

2. to stab.

1891

J. Bent Criminal Life 223: An outrage locally known as ‘scuttling’.

3. (also scuttle a ship) to deflower a woman.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1926		(con. 1860s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 201: He was ‘the mildest mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat’.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 283: ‘She’s a bumboat, broad in the beam and too much tophamper.’ ‘Get out! You’d scuttle her if you got the chance.’.

4. of a man, to have sexual intercourse.

2005

Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz Apr. 47: cock lodger n. An idle man who persuades a gullible single mum to let him [...] sit on her sofa all day watching DVDs in exchange for the odd scuttling.

In derivatives

scuttler (n.)

one who carries a weapon (other than a gun), typically a knife or strong leather belt.

1891		J. Bent Criminal Life 224: Weapons adopted by the ‘scuttlers’ seem always the same [...] sticks, stones, bricks, and even knives on such occasions, yet their favourite instrument of violence is a strong leather belt.
1901		J. Caminada Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life II 404: A scuttler [...] is a coward at heart, but he relies upon a free use of the knife for maintaining his position.

In phrases

scuttle someone’s nob (v.) (also scuttle someone’s hull) [nob n.¹ (1)]

to break someone’s head.

c.1800		‘The Frolicsome Spark’ No. 31 Papers of Francis Place (1819) n.p.: Be civil and don’t make a rout, or I’ve got one shall scuttle your nob.
c.1816		‘The Night Before Larry Was Stretched’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 80: Soon I’ll give you to know you d—d thief! / [...] And scuttle your nob with my fist!
1820		Jack Randall’s Diary 40: He offers to scuttle a nob o’er again.
1822		D. Carey Life in Paris 239: It will go hard with me if I don’t shiver his timbers, or scuttle his hull.
1834		F.S. Mahony Reliques Father Prout in Fraser’s Mag. Dec. 671/1: I’ll...scuttle your nob with my fist .
1841		‘Night Before Larry Was Stretched’ Dublin Comic Songster 186: Oh! by the holy, you thief, / I’ll scuttle your nob with my daddle.
1855		Fife Herald 15 Mar. 2/6: The ruffian tells him to hold up his arms or he will have his ‘nob scuttled’.