He turned his back on the heap of bloody, prostrate men, stepped over a little rivulet of gore that ran rapidly toward the scupper as the ship heeled to port, then hesitated and started back as she heeled to starboard.
Instantly Mike Murphy returned the salute, firing at the other's flashes; then he fell to the deck and rolled over into the scupper to escape the return fire, which was not slow in coming.
We ain't bound to follow just the only track which would give U Saw and his men the chance to scupper us without givin' us a chance to lay one or two of 'em out.
If they once hit this light sampan they'll cut it in two andscupper us.
The gear aloft banged and crashed and the sails flapped thunderously, while water spurted in through scupper hole and clanging wash-port and swashed across the decks.
Not one of your summer jaunts of a few miles on a measured course in a ladies' wind, but a genuine thrash to windward in a scupper breeze with all the "muslin" hung.
On the third day he crawled to the stern, where there seemed less motion, and finding a boat's cushion threw it in the lee scupper and fell upon it.
From his mat in the lee scupper David groaned miserably.
The scupper feed worked successfully, but the forced feed is foolproof and was therefore installed upon the advice of the preponderance of expert criticism.
The original Liberty engine was partially fed with oil by the so-called scupper system, whereas this later was changed to a forced feed under compression.
Then down through the scupper his head it went, And there came a tremenjous shout, "Sea-Sarpint be blowed, ye darned landlubbers!
The rods had a sharp scupper on the outside of the big end so placed as also to throw the oil on this same thrust face.
Ye thought I'd scupper him, didn't you, soon's the ship was taken?
If we're like to be bested, scupper the old man at once.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scupper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: companion; drain; gutter; kennel; parts; sewer; ship; sink; sluice; sump
