• @vivadanang@lemm.ee
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    101 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