• vivadanang
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    1 year ago

    “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

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      1 year ago

      Surely “tossed overboard” is also a nautical phrase?

      And it doesn’t mean the same as scupper anyway.