Scuppers is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCUPPERS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SCUPPER, to thwart, frustrate
• sink (a ship or its crew) deliberately
• prevent from working or succeeding; thwart
NOUN:
• an outlet in the side of a building for draining water.
• a hole in a ship's side to carry water overboard from the deck.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to ambush

Words related to SCUPPERS

scupper13 scuppered16 scuppering17

How to use SCUPPERS in a sentence

• In a moment I stood free, and Perdosa was picking himself out of the scuppers.
• The Mate picked him up out of the scuppers and we dried his clothes over the boilers, but the monocle was never seen again.
• The water was spouting up in white jets through our scuppers.
• The water crept in through the scuppers, mounted over the rail, and the level of the ocean slowly crawled up the slant of the deck.
• The schooner, hove to, lurched and floundered through the sea, rolling her scuppers under and perpetually flooding the deck with icy salt water.
• Swinging on a tactical semi-circle, the trim little flag-ship flew like a white ghost, tearing the waters, curling them up on deck until they ran out of the scuppers.
• After the first meal the emigrants began throwing the refuse on the deck instead of over the side or into the scuppers.
• I tell you, as we came at her once towards the end, I saw that she was bleeding through her scuppers like a pig, from the middle deck.
• The sea-water splashed in through the scuppers and through the ports, or leaked in, a little at a time, through the seams.
• The HISPANIOLA was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell.
• In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.
• Several times the Spanish scuppers actually ran a horrid red, as if the very ships were bleeding.
• It came inboard, and was suspended over the deck, a bulging mass, its bottom was unfastened, and out gushed our catch, slithering over the deck, convulsive in the scuppers.
• If necessary, they may be baled into the hallway and permitted to escape by way of the stairs, which we may term the lee scuppers.

Similar words containing SCUPPER without suffix s

scupper13 scuppered16 scuppering17 scuppernong18 scuppernongs19

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