Luffing is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for LUFFING in dictionary:

VERB:

LUFF, to steer a sailing vessel nearer into the wind
steer (a yacht) nearer the wind
obstruct (an opponent in yacht racing) by sailing closer to the wind

NOUN:

the edge of a fore-and-aft sail next to the mast or stay

Words related to LUFFING

luff10 luffed13 luffs11

Words that contain LUFFING

bluffing17 fluffing18 pluffing17 sluffing15 outbluffing20

How to use LUFFING in a sentence

Keeping off in the intervals to fill the mainsail, and luffing into the combers, they worked their way across the dangerous stretch.
She was close on a wind, with her larboard tacks aboard, and had evidently just shaken everything, in the expectation of luffing past the point without tacking.
Just as I got a view of this calamity, I caught a glimpse of the Black Prince, close-hauled, luffing up athwart the wake of her enemies, and manifestly menacing to get the wind.

Similar words containing LUFF without suffix ing

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