Tom, but before Jack Lizard, who was at the helm, could do so, over the schooner heeled, till the water rushed through the scuppers high up her deck.
Her lee scuppers were often awash and a good deal of water was coming into the port gundeck.
High along the weather rail, with the wind screaming in their ears or down in the lee scuppers where the white-shot green passed close below with a roar and a rush, the boys would cling, yelling aloud their exultation.
When we got aboard, their hold was full of dead men an' their scuppers washin' red.
Even as he spoke, the scuppers were nearly level with the ocean, and her rolling in the big sea was sluggish.
She was a big iron barque loaded until her scuppers amidships were apparently only a foot or two from the scum of the dock.
It swirled about them icy cold as she rolled down to lee, and the scuppers were spouting when with a wild lurch she swung back to weather.
The huge gray seas from the south hissed and surged by them, with dazzling, hungry heads of lashed foam, now and again falling solid on the bows with a shower of spray, and streaming off through the scuppers back into the sea.
The sea was rising every minute, and the three ships rolled scuppers under, and it was evidently out of the question for him, in such a sea and at the distance they were apart, to fire at her.
So deep was she, that as she rolled in the heavy seas, the water came rushing over her decks, and gushing out through the scupperson the opposite side.
If you recollect, I ordered beforehand the hatches to be battened down and the scuppers in the waist cleared.
It hardly lasted a minute, but in that brief spell it filled the scuppers just as if we had shipped a heavy sea, of course wetting us all to the skin.
Look sharp, Marline, and see to the hatches being battened down and the scuppers open; for, if the blessed thing bursts immediately overhead, it will flood our decks with a deluge of water worse than if we had shipped a heavy sea.
Wing and wing the Scud is flying With her scuppers full of yeast.
It fell about mid-April; The Trades were holding free; We drove her till the scuppers hissed And buried in the lee.
The bark was careened until the lee scuppers were submerged; and the staunch craft shook from end to end.
The ship careened, and a sea came over her weather rail, until the lee-scuppers spouted green water, wetting me a little, even in my sheltered retreat.
I was standing on the companionway, looking down on the fore-deck and wondering how long the plague would last, when some of the crew began picking bodies out of the scuppers and throwing them overboard.
In the scuppers there were six or seven bodies waiting for the first officer and his burial crew.
Her white wake trailed across the tops of the seas astern, and the water that bubbled through the scuppers crept up her lee deck.
The sea came on board, the fodder washed about, and the scuppers were choked.
Mossamedes rolled until her scuppers dipped, and when she swung to the savage gusts the jar of her cable pierced the rumble of the sea.
I suppose they plugged the 'tween-deck scuppers to keep any water they might ship out of the bilges and away from the lime.
There was nearly always a high swell running now, which was especially uncomfortable when there was no wind, for then we would often roll scuppers under.
The vessel tumbled about a great deal, rolling her scuppers under water, flooding her decks, and running her bowsprit under, all the while.
Onward the brig tore through the foaming waves, her lee-scuppers completely under water.
Nearly everything on deck had been properly secured, and such trifling articles as were not, were soon washed into the lee-scuppers or overboard.
Again, however, she righted, and this time, her lee scuppers remained for longer free of the water.
Some scuppers were drilled through to carry oil to the rod bearing and some were not.
He rolled into the scuppers at the captain's feet, bloody, disfigured, unconscious as the deck itself.
A moment later she had pulled herself together; she murmured a disjointed sentence of thanks, and moved away towards the scuppers where Aylmer still lay motionless, realizing, as she reached it, that the gray man was still at her side.
I flung you into the lee scuppers an' I can do it again.
Then he threw him in the lee scuppers and turned aft, the crew falling back before him and running to the halliards with almost ludicrous haste.
Just before the order was given for the light yard and topmen to lay aloft and furl and reef, Woywod, raging like a lion, discovered Wramm sleeping in the lee scuppersunder the main pin-rail.
But what is it that clings black and doubled across that fatal cannon, dripping and heavy, and choking the scuppers with clotting gore, and swaying to and fro with the motion of the vessel, like a bloody fleece?
The ship is lying over half upon her beam-ends; lee scuppers under water, and forecastle all in a smother of foam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scuppers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
