"scutter" definition, meaning, and origin

Noun

Alteration of scuttle.

Thin excrement.
- 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:

Alteration of squitter.

To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.
- We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.
- I scuttered all the way to Dallory, and scuttered back again ; and I don’t think I stopped to speak to a single soul, but Timothy Wilks.” - 1886, Mrs. Henry Wood, Bessy Rane, Richard Bentley & Son, page 122:
- 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., →OCLC:

To void thin excrement.
- 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: