Davits is valid Scrabble Word

Is davits a scrabble word?
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Is davits valid Words with Friends?
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6 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for DAVITS in dictionary:

NOUN:

DAVIT, a crane that projects over the side of a ship hatchway for moving cargo
a small crane on board a ship, especially one of a pair for suspending or lowering a lifeboat.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a hoisting device on a ship

Words related to DAVITS

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How to use DAVITS in a sentence

She had two surf boats, a dingy, and a dory slung to the davits.
There was a small boat hanging by the davits, which had sustained no other injury than two holes in its side.
The starboard boats are hanging in the davits, ready to lower away when we are behind the island.
After this was accomplished, all the boats were hauled up beside the tent, and covered with snow, except the two quarter-boats, which were left hanging at the davits all winter.
On the steamer, however, I saw a boat hanging from davits near the stern.
Then my hopes sprang back to the boat hanging from her davits.
If it was not, it could be, for there was a boat still hanging to one of its davits.
Ken almost fancied he could hear the davits squeal as the boats were hastily lowered to the level of the sea.
And then you may go on fumbling for years about these precious davits which are such a stumbling-block to your humanity.
These davits that refuse to do three times as much work as they were meant to do.

Oh! The wickedness of these davits! One of the great discoveries of this admirable Inquiry is the fascination of the davits.
The heads of the cranes need not be any higher than the heads of the davits.
These two were fetched up while some of us lowered the accommodation-ladder and others swung out the boats on the davits.
Now they were ready to lower the small craft they carried slung on davits at the stern.
He found that two boats had been cleared of their hamper and lowered on the davits until they could be swung in on the promenade deck.
Tollemache and Walker had dragged out of the smothering spray near the port davits three men who seemed to be merely stunned.
Courtenay, who seemed to be everywhere at once, lighted torches which were fastened to the empty davits in readiness for a night alarm.
Her sides bristled with cranes or davits for boats, but every boat was gone.
The vessel lay within three quarters of a mile of us, and we could plainly see the men at the davits lowering the starboard long-boat.
An immense wave had caught us, rolled us so far over that our dory in davits had filled with water to the brim.
The boat was quickly hauled to the davits, and all hands were called to weigh anchor and set sail.
Then jumping up into the whaleboat which hung in davits on the starboard quarter he waited for the sharks to appear, and the mate and I leant over the side and watched.
The quays are vacant, except for the discarded lumber of ships, sun-dried boats, rusted cables and anchors, and a pile of broken davits.
It hung from two davits, on a level with the kitchen, about thirty feet above the rock.
Once, I remember, I found myself hanging out of that door between the davits, looking down into those big black seas and crying like a baby.
The boats were hoisted up at the davits, and the boatswain was ordered to pipe all hands on deck.
The same commendation was given to the first lieutenant, after the barge had been hauled up to the davits, and the order given for the ship to fill away again.
After the gig was hoisted to the davits, the chief officer and chief engineer were asked to go to the saloon, where specific instructions were given as to the mode of procedure.
They hauled the gig up to the davits, however, and again the yacht lay in dead silence in this little bay.
Oars were mislaid and on hanging her to the davits it was noticed in time there was no plug in the hole for drainage.

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