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SLACK-WATER to SNATCH-BLOCK
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SPILLING-LINES to SPRING A LEAK
SPRINGING THE LUFF to SQUALL
SQUARE to STANDING-WATER
STARBOARD to STEM
STEMSON to STEWARD
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SCUPPERS
SCUPPERS, (dalots, Fr. schoepen, Dutch, to draw off) certain channels cut through the water-ways and sides of a ship at proper distances, and lined with plated lead, in order to carry the water off from the deck into the sea.The scuppers of the lower deck of a ship of war are usually furnished with a leathern pipe, called the scupper-hoase, which hangs downward from the mouth or opening of the scupper. The intent of this is to prevent the water from entering when the ship inclines under a weight of sail.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 258, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1146.html