scutter vs scuttering

scutter

noun

  • A hasty run. 

  • Thin excrement. 

verb

  • To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter. 

  • To void thin excrement. 

scuttering

noun

  • The act of running with a light pattering noise; a skittering. 

How often have the words scutter and scuttering occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )