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Scupper
Architectural draining feature / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Scuppers" redirects here. For the children's book, see Scuppers The Sailor Dog.
A scupper is an opening in the side walls of a vessel or an open-air structure, which allows water to drain instead of pooling within the bulwark or gunwales of a vessel, or within the curbing or walls of a building.
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There are two main kinds of scuppers: