had been scuppering

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of scupper.
  scupper

  noun

  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.

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