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Scupper   Listen
noun
Scupper  n.  (Naut.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; called also scupper hole.
Scupper hose (Naut.), a pipe of leather, canvas, etc., attached to the mouth of the scuppers, on the outside of a vessel, to prevent the water from entering.
Scupper nail (Naut.), a nail with a very broad head, for securing the edge of the hose to the scupper.
Scupper plug (Naut.), a plug to stop a scupper.






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"Scupper" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Scupper" :   ambush, touch on, drain, queer, ambuscade, bear on, waste pipe, lie in wait, touch, wait



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