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6 words match “CUPPER”

CUPPER n.
One who performs the operation of cupping.
SCUPPER n.
and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.
SCUPPERNONG n.
An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
FOX n.
la, Concord, Hartford, etc., and the southern fox grape (Vitis vulpina) has produced the Scuppernong, and probably the Catawba. -- Fox hunter. (a) One who pursues foxes with hounds. (b) A horse ridden in a fox chase. -- Fox shark (Zoöl.), the thrasher shark. See Thrasher shark, under Thrasher. -- Fox sleep, pretende…
MUSCADINE n.
ame given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.
WATERWAY n.
ngth of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.