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Scupper   /skˈəpər/   Listen
Scupper

verb
1.
Wait in hiding to attack.  Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, waylay.
2.
Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.  Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, queer.
noun
1.
Drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard.





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"Scupper" Quotes from Famous Books



... apparent, it suddenly began to rain, the warm fresh water from the clouds pelting down in a perfect deluge and totally obscuring everything beyond a hundred yards' radius. The water poured off the decks in cataracts, while from the poop it gushed through a scupper which discharged on to the main-deck as though flowing from the spout of a pump. In ten minutes the decks were as effectually cleansed as though they had been scrubbed with soap and water. Thinking it a pity ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood
... in time. I was turning away after tying the last gasket on the foresail, when the deck up-ended and tipped me headforemost into the starboard scupper. At the same time a smother of salt water blew over the port rail, now far above me, to drench me as thoroughly as though I had fallen overboard. I brushed out my eyes to find the ship smack on her beam ends, and the wind howling by ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... with enamel,—some of them present the usual slim, thorn-like type common in the teeth of the existing fish of our coasts,—some again are squat and angular, and rest on rectilinear bases, prolonged considerably on each side of the body of the tooth, like the rim of a hat or the flat head of a scupper nail. Of the occipital plates, some present a smooth enamelled surface, while some are thickly tuberculated,—each tubercle bearing a minute depression in its apex, like a crater on the summit of a rounded hill. We find reptilian bones in abundance,—a thing new to Scotch geology,—and ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... sheet anchor and fell dead asleep upon the top of each other under the capstan bars. Then, as a second lieutenant, he was in one of those grim three-deckers with powder- blackened hulls and crimson scupper-holes, their spare cables tied round their keels and over their bulwarks to hold them together, which carried the news into the Bay of Naples. From thence, as a reward for his services, he was transferred as first lieutenant to the Aurora frigate, engaged ...
— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle


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