[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Nautical.a drain at the edge of a deck exposed to the weather, for allowing accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges.Compare freeing port freeing port.", "a drain, closed by one or two flaps, for allowing water from the sprinkler system of a factory or the like to run off a floor of the building to the exterior.", "any opening in the side of a building, as in a parapet, for draining off rainwater."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Informal.to prevent from happening or succeeding; ruin ; wreck :The snowstorm scuppered our plans for the evening.", "British.to sink (a vessel) deliberately; scuttle ."]}]