Gallivat is valid Scrabble Word

Is gallivat a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary NO
Official Tournament and Club Word List NO
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is gallivat valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends NO

8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for GALLIVAT in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Portuguese) a large two-masted Malay boat
Oriental armed vessel
A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.

Words related to GALLIVAT

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Words that contain GALLIVAT

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How to use GALLIVAT in a sentence

The General of the North forbade all communication with Bombay, and, on the 26th May, a British gallivat was fired on at Mahim.
What if he could seize a grab or gallivat in the harbor? To navigate such a vessel required a party, men having some knowledge of the sea.
Thus reflecting on the qualities of his fellow captives, Desmond had ruefully to acknowledge that they would make a poor crew to navigate a grab or gallivat.
Desmond perceived that the light was on the outermost of the line, and, treading water for a moment, he caught the low hum of voices coming from the after part of the gallivat.
The toni drew alongside, and soon five men, with bundles, muskets, and the small heavy barrel, stood with Desmond and the Gujarati on the deck of the gallivat.
Meanwhile Desmond himself, with the rest of the men, set about preparing the gallivat in which he was about to make his next move.
On board the smallest gallivat were now Desmond, five of his companions, and eleven helpless Marathas.
In the glow of the blazing vessels in mid channel the moving gallivat had almost certainly been seen.
The glare of the burning vessels was dimly lighting up almost the whole harbor mouth, and the runaway gallivat, now clearly seen from the fort, had become a target for its guns.
The fact was that the men trying so earnestly to save the gallivat knew nothing of what had happened to the grab.

Every other man was straining at his oar in the gallivat.
Clearly the gunners were aiming at his vessel, which, being larger than the gallivat, and higher in the water, presented an easier mark.
The gallivat, at any rate, appeared not to have suffered.
The motion of the gallivat at once ceased, and, the grab slowly creeping up to her, Desmond had to put his helm hard up to avoid a collision.
The mainmast of the gallivat had been struck by a shot and had gone by the board.
Desmond was the last to leave the gallivat, releasing one of the captive rowers, who in his turn could release the rest.
The gallivat, lying all but motionless on the water, a forlorn object with the jagged stump of her mainmast, grew smaller and smaller in the distance, and was soon hull down.
It was fortunate that little was required of the crew, for in a few minutes all of them save the four Marathas from the gallivat were prostrated with seasickness.

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