scutter

Things boom overhead like bitterns, or scutter alongside like hares, or arise dripping and hissing from below like otters.

From the door he watched the man scutter down the long, long corridor out of sight.

Immediately there was a yell—a scutter—a run—a positive tumult.

But every boy, even the valiant Johnny Trumbull, was gone in a mad scutter.

Tod saw a young hare scutter across the grass, and rushed after it, full chase.