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Scupper   /skˈəpər/   Listen
Scupper

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


Words linked to "Scupper" :   compromise, waste pipe, wait, bear upon, affect, bear on, impact, drain, touch, touch on, drainpipe


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