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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Nautical An opening in the side of a ship at deck level to allow water to run off.
  2. n. An opening for draining off water, as from a floor or the roof of a building.
  3. v. Chiefly British To overwhelm or massacre.
  4. v. To ruin or destroy: "The world oil glut combined with disastrous federal energy policies to scupper Alberta's economy” ( Christian Science Monitor).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Nautical, an opening in the side of a ship at the level of the deck, or slanting from it, to allow water to run off; also, the gutter or channel surrounding the deck, and leading to such openings: often in the plural.

Wiktionary

  1. n. nautical A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
  2. n. architecture A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
  3. v. UK Thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another; compare scuttle.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Naut.) An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard
  2. v. wait in hiding to attack
  3. v. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

Etymologies

  1. Of unknown origin. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English scoper- (in scopernail, nail for attaching scupper-leathers to a ship), probably from scopen, to scoop, from scope, a scoop; see scoop.Perhaps from scupper1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. waste pipe
  1. drain
  1. drainpipe
  1. wait

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  2. exothermic
  3. birdbath
  4. nonmetallic
  1. diamagnetic
  2. propylene
  3. towelette
  4. night-breeze
  1. cuttie
  2. multi-colored
  3. try-catch
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rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Tupper
  1. supper
  1. upper

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. scupper-shutters
  2. scupper-leather
  1. scupper-hole
  2. scupper-hose
  1. scupper-plug
  2. scupper-valve
  1. lead-nail
  2. scupper
  1. scupper nail
  2. scupper plug
  1. barbican

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