Openings at the level of the deck for draining water overboard

Usage examples of scuppers.

The sickness in her chest deepened as she looked over the heather-clad hillocks to the right of her and into the distance where lay the river and Jarrow, for it was up here that her da used to bring them on fine Sundays, and he would sit on the highest point and talk to them, always looking towards the river, broadening it for them from the silver thread, which was all they could see, to a vast water on which ships, filled up to the scuppers with coal, set their great sails and went with the wind to London.

My head was lying in the scuppers, inches away from one of the lifeboat davits.

I doing there with my head in the scuppers, inches away from the davits?

I knew I was lying in the scuppers with my head cut must have struck it against the davit when I fell.

A tremendous sea struck her quarter, stove in the very port abreast of which the little lord was lying, and washed him clean out of bed into the lee scuppers, and set all swimming around him.