“Scupper - an opening cut through the bulwarks of a ship so that water falling on deck may flow overboard”
like so much other bullshit, this comes from the navy. can’t just say tossed overboard, nope, gotta have a whole new nomenclature regarding gutters on gunwales to say the same damned thing as landlubbers
“Scupper - an opening cut through the bulwarks of a ship so that water falling on deck may flow overboard”
like so much other bullshit, this comes from the navy. can’t just say tossed overboard, nope, gotta have a whole new nomenclature regarding gutters on gunwales to say the same damned thing as landlubbers
Surely “tossed overboard” is also a nautical phrase?
And it doesn’t mean the same as scupper anyway.