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scupper Nautical a drain or spout allowing water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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