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scupper hole
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Noun
scupper hole (plural scupper holes)
- (nautical) a scupper on a ship, canoe or other vessel
- 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8:
- The mate, going aft, was caught in the waist when the ship gave a mighty lurch, and went tumbling to lee-ward where the scupper-holes were spouting like so many fountains all a-row.
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