Words that rhyme with buttle

n 1: the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument 2: (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder [syn: rebutter, rebuttal]

n 1: container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire [syn: scuttle, coal scuttle] 2: an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship [syn: hatchway, opening, scuttle] v 1: to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle]

n 1: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle] 2: public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points 3: bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads v 1: travel back and forth between two points

adj 1: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: elusive, subtle] 2: able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind" 3: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn: insidious, pernicious, subtle]

n 1: a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar [syn: turtleneck, turtle, polo-neck] 2: any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming v 1: overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!" [syn: capsize, turtle, turn turtle] 2: hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation

adj 1: lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave" [syn: broad, unsubtle]

v 1: eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" [syn: devour, guttle, raven, pig]

n 1: ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell [syn: cuttlefish, cuttle]

n 1: (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter [syn: surrebutter, surrebuttal]