1. A receptacle for holding a supply of coal for a fire; a coal-box, coal-scoop.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. East Ang., I. 72. Coal-hod … otherwise called the coal-scuttle.
1832. Babbage, Econ. Manuf., i. (ed. 3), 11. Carts loaded with old tin kettles and worn-out coal-skuttles.
c. 1855. Lytton, Autobiog., in Life (1883), I. 128. No companion visited me, save the servant with my meals or the coal-scuttle.
2. Coal-scuttle bonnet: a woman’s bonnet resembling an inverted coal-box of the scoop type, usually projecting much beyond the face.
1839. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xxiii. Miss Snevellici … glanced from the depths of her coal-scuttle straw bonnet at Nicholas.
1867. Miss Braddon, Run to Earth, III. xi. 220. A pretty face never looked prettier than when dimly seen in the shadowy depths of a coal-scuttle bonnet.
