Crossword-Solution: SCUPPER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scupper | v. | An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCUPPER | anagram | CUPPERS |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SCUPPER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DRAINAGE hole | 1 answer |
| Drainage opening in a ship's side. | 1 answer |
| Nautical drain | 1 answer |
| Sink a ship deliberately | 1 answer |
| defeat or ruin | 1 answer |
| drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard | 1 answer |
| Deliberately sink | 2 answers |
| Deck opening | 3 answers |
| DECK part | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
RNAEOC
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with SCUPPER (5)
Here, you try it on.” Emmeline scrambled away as far as she could, till she reached the starboard bulwarks, where she sat in the scupper, breathless and speechless and wide-eyed.
With a cry of alarm he ran after it, and after much search found it lying against the bulwark near the edge of a scupper hole, where the least jar of the ship would have sent it to the bottom of the ocean.
The sailors as usual were washing the deck, A great sheet of water, supplied continuously by the pumps was rolling in tiny wavelets, and escaping now to starboard, now to larboard through the scupper-holes.
The diminution was small enough, but the consciousness that more water was escaping through the scupper-holes than was finding its way into the hold gave us fresh courage to persevere with our work.
Every port and scupper was working to ease the weight of North Atlantic that perpetually fell on board.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1963–2001).