Forestays is valid Scrabble Word

Is forestays a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is forestays valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for FORESTAYS in dictionary:

NOUN:

FORESTAY, a rope or wire used to support a foremast
a rope to support a ship's foremast, running from its top to the deck at the bow.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a wire or rope used to support a foremast

Words related to FORESTAYS

forestay14

Words that contain FORESTAYS

forestaysail18 forestaysails19

How to use FORESTAYS in a sentence

In less than an hour afterward I saw Huntly let himself down by the forestays and clamber along to the fore-castle, where he joined the group of sailors, and I lost sight of him.
In less than an hour afterwards I saw Huntly let himself down by the forestays and clamber along to the forecastle where he joined the group of sailors, and I lost sight of him.
And now they set up the mast of pine and they made it fast with forestays, and they hauled up the sails with ropes of twisted oxhide.
First they lowered the sails, loosing the sheets, and lowering the mast by the forestays, they laid it in the mast-stead, and themselves went forth on the strand of the sea.

Similar words containing STAY without suffix s and without prefix fore

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