Definition of "scutter"

scutter

/ˈskʌtə(ɹ)/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural scutters
1. Thin excrement.
  Quotations
  Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.
  2001, Ciaran O'Driscoll, A Runner Among Falling Leaves, page 74
2. A hasty run.
verb
third-person singular simple present scutters, present participle scuttering, simple past and past participle scuttered
1. To void thin excrement.
  Quotations
  Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter.Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter.
  1565, Alois Brandl, editor, King Daryus
  Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.
  2001, Ciaran O'Driscoll, A Runner Among Falling Leaves, page 74
2. To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.
  Quotations
  A mangy little jackal […] cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.
  1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co.
  These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.
  1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana