flood n Attrib flood-gate: one of a number of openings on each side of a vessel permitting water to drain overboard from the deck; scupper.
   T 194-65 I had a job to get her foot up in the floodgate, you know, the waterway. An' after we'd lifted up enough, [she] got in deck. P 209-73 ~ s [are] holes on each side of a vessel at deck level, which is a means of letting water off the deck.

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