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scupper

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scupper
Nautical a drain or spout allowing water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard

scupper [′skəp·ər]
(naval architecture)
A drain on or below the deck of a ship that guides water over or through the side.

scupper
scupper, 2
1. An opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
2. A device placed in such an opening to prevent clogging of the drain.


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Of course they may scupper them at once in revenge.
Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers.
The HISPANIOLA was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell.
 
 
 
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