2. Verb. (third-person singular of scupper) ¹
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Definition of Scuppers
1. scupper [v] - See also: scupper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scuppers
Literary usage of Scuppers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"The scuppers should be of cast iron with an opening at the floor level of about 4
... Two designs of scuppers are shown in Figs. 16 and 17. Fia. 18. Hood-. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"scuppers ; certain channels cut through the water-ways and sides of a ship at
proper distances, and lined with sheet-lead, in order to carry the water off ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"scuppers are holes, lined with lead, in a ship's side, intended to carry off rain
or other water which may be shipped. SCURVY, or SCORBUTUS, is a disease ..."
4. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"length," says Tone, "her masts and rigging were swept away, her scuppers flowed
with blood, her wounded filled the cockpit, her shattered ribs yawned at ..."
5. An Outline of Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical by Theodore Delavan Wilson, Edward James Reed, Titus Evans Dodge (1873)
"scuppers. scuppers are holes lined with lead, cut through the water-way and ...
scuppers should be laid off so that they will come in the opening of a frame ..."
6. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1857)
"Although thrown violently into the lee scuppers, and struck by the tiller, he
managed, with the assistance of Mr. Monk, to get the helm up, and so kept some ..."
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