Definitions
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- noun nautical A
channel at the end of adeck torestrain thewater .
Etymologies
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spurn + water?
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Examples
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Abstain, and you're a drink-water (not a catch-water nor yet a spurnwater, which are both kinds of ship's scuppers).
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