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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



... precaution had greatly lessened the danger, every man on the deck of the Swash believed the brig was gone when the gust struck her. Over she went, in fact, until the water came pouring in above her half-ports, like so many little cascades, and spouting up through her scupper-holes, resembling the blowing of young whales. It was the whiffling energy of the tornado that alone saved her. As if disappointed in not destroying its intended victim at one swoop, the tornado "let up" in its pressure, like a dexterous wrestler, making a fresh and desperate ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper



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