Becalmed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BECALMED in dictionary:

VERB:
• BECALM, to make calm
• leave (a sailing ship) unable to move through lack of wind
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a sailing ship) motionless through lack of wind
• rendered motionless for lack of wind

Words related to BECALMED

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How to use BECALMED in a sentence

• The lower sails of a vessel are sometimes becalmed, while a smart breeze fills the upper.
• Why could she not have been becalmed near me? I dared not let my mind rest upon the opportunities I had lost when she had been becalmed near me.
• During the day and following night we were becalmed off the north side of Legendre Island.
• The three-master, which was becalmed at sundown, could not have gone west.
• He dares not lay polluted hands upon the dead, whose becalmed face is looking up to thee.
• We lay becalmed for the rest of that day, but a light easterly breeze springing up towards morning, we clapped on all sail and worked steadily along the coast.
• Owing to the falling of the wind, only twelve ships got fairly clear of the bay, outside of which they lay becalmed.
• We had now been for some days becalmed, and at length we began to fear we had drifted into a dead sea, where the wind never rose, and the currents ran in a circle.
• As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce long leagues apart descried.
• We were becalmed a whole week in the Straits of Bonifacio.
• One day, while under sail, we were becalmed near a small island, but little elevated above the level of the water, and resembling a green meadow.
• In the spring of that year a ship sailed from the South Isles to traffic, and fell becalmed inside Snowfellness.
• He was becalmed for twenty-one days, but he arrived at the Island of Dominica March 9.
• They were often becalmed and took months to cross the ocean.
• The Arabella dropped slowly down with the tide, the wind being so light that she was becalmed by every tall warehouse on the way.
• The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
• Up in the sky there was not a cloud nor a bird, and on the earth the lightest straw lay becalmed.
• As they lay becalmed, with the island in sight, they observed a boat pulling towards them, and in the course of three hours she arrived on board.
• The novelty of the adventure, and the unexpected fall of the man by a stranger come in nobody knew how, had becalmed the other two, that they really stood gazing at me.
• Of a sailing ship, becalmed through burning days and stifling nights in tropic waters.
• But kicking never yet altered the determination of a mule, and cursing a mule in a whisper is like blowing your breath against the sail of a becalmed sloop.
• The light land breeze has ceased and we are lying becalmed.
• We lay becalmed off a pretty deep bay on New Guinea, about 12 or 14 leagues wide and 7 or 8 leagues deep, having low land near its bottom, but high land without.
• Notwithstanding which I kept the pinnace out, for fear we should be becalmed.
• While becalmed here, we measured the velocity of the current setting east, which we found to be about three miles an hour.
• He was a handsome young man, a French-Canadian, under whose guidance we made the place, but we were becalmed before it for the whole forenoon.
• We were sailing among that great forest of islands when we became becalmed, the peril most feared by pilots.

Similar words containing BECALM without suffix ed

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