coal scuttle

coal scuttle

n a domestic metal container for coal

Coal scuttle

A sheet metal bucket of about four-gallon capacity used for carrying coal from the coal pile to the stove. The scuttles had large lip-like spouts to make it easier to pour the coal into the stove without spilling any pieces on the floor.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

coal scuttle - container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the firescuttlecontainer - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

Translations

secchio del carbone