Lightship is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGHTSHIP in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a ship intended to function as a lighthouse
• a moored or anchored boat with a beacon light to warn or guide ships at sea.
• moored ship used as a lighthouse
• a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a ship equipped with a brilliant light and moored at a place dangerous to navigation

Words related to LIGHTSHIP

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Words that contain LIGHTSHIP

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How to use LIGHTSHIP in a sentence

• When they passed the Bar Lightship, Lister climbed to the bridge and for a few minutes looked about.
• The lightship had vanished, but a bright beam pierced the haze astern.
• The patient lightship off the pier was swinging drearily as we throbbed past into the gust-swept open and set our bows for the unseen coast of France.
• Miles to port the Sand Heads lightship swung to its great hawsers off the Fraser River shoals.
• Akroyd swam from Charlestown Bridge, Boston, to Boston Lightship in 7 hours 12 minutes 57 seconds.
• In the gloaming was a light-ship, marking the end of the Goodwin Sands.
• About a mile and a half from shore was a lightship, and farther out a white steamer showed in perfect outline against the blueness of the morning sky.
• This lies inside the lightship at Boston, extending from this to and well into Nahant Bay.
• It was intended that this vessel should do duty as a lightship until the lighthouse should be completed.
• There were upwards of thirty artificers on board the lightship at this time.
• Getting into the boats, by the way, in a heavy sea, when the lightship was rolling violently, was no easy matter.
• Those who chose, therefore, remained in the lightship or the tender, and those who preferred it went to the beacon.
• But, while the lightship served for a temporary beacon, a new tower was needed that might send the warning pencil of light far out to sea.
• The lightship is regarded by the Government as merely a makeshift, though some of them have been in use for more than a quarter of a century.
• In due course of time they reached the Nore lightship, and there they lay and drifted about until the yachts should come up.
• The speed at which she cuts the water is now visible enough as she obscures for a second or so the hull of the lightship.

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