Buoy is valid Scrabble Word

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

4 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for BUOY in dictionary:

VERB:

to mark with a warning float
keep (someone or something) afloat
make (someone) cheerful and confident
cause (a price) to rise to or remain at a high level
mark with an anchored float
To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
To float; to rise like a buoy.
float on the surface of water

prevent from sinking

NOUN:

an anchored float serving as a navigation mark, to show reefs or other hazards, or for mooring.
floating marker anchored in the sea
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to mark with a buoy (a warning float)

Words related to BUOY

buoyed12 buoying13 buoys10

Words that contain BUOY

buoys10 buoyed12 buoyage13 buoyant12 buoying13 bellbuoy15 buoyages14 buoyance15 buoyancy18 lifebuoy16 sonobuoy13 bellbuoys16 buoyances16 buoyantly17 lifebuoys17 sonobuoys14 buoyancies17 upbuoyance19 buoyantness16 upbuoyances20 buoyantnesses18

How to use BUOY in a sentence

As the night buoy struck the water a long-burning red light was fused by contact.
They are fastened to a cord and sunk in the sea, and their place marked by a buoy.
A moment later it was drawn in, the line holding the craft to the buoy slipped out, and the bow swung sharply around.
The buoy was pulled in empty and the surf car substituted.
A little wharf ran out, the bare end of which was perceptible to them, though they could discern a small yacht lying moored to a buoy a short distance away.
As the boats neared the three-quarter buoy it was plain to all who looked that the real race was yet to come.
It was a small buoy that was rocked by the ripple of the ebbing tide.
The small buoy that on the previous evening had been moored near the schooner was no longer to be seen, and had doubtless been hoisted in.
When it reached the water it was found to be much too heavy to float, and it was by no means an easy matter to buoy it up in such a way that it might be towed.
He was a Finlander, Olaf Neilsen, who kept boats in summer, fished, and tended two buoy lights at the river entrance for a living.

Great firing at our buoy, supposing him a Spaniard.
The buoy, with its flaming torch, had drifted far to leeward, and the lookout could do no more than follow its fainting light as the dark of the tropics closed in.
The search was over! The spot was found! Fortune lay within their reach! Marking the spot with a buoy, they rowed back to the ship, on which the captain had remained.
He wanted to see the operation of setting up the breeches buoy in order to make a good story, with plenty of details.
The breeches buoy was now pulled toward the ship, by those aboard hauling on the proper line.
A signal from the ship told those on shore that the buoy was loaded with a passenger, and ready to be hauled back.
They stopped alongside a little white buoy which floated on the water.
She saw herself tying her infant to a large buoy while the passengers and sailors were rushing for the boats.
By a special apparatus the compressed air is forced through the whistle at the top of the buoy, and the air is replenished by two tubes at the upper part of the buoy.
But only for a brief moment did this hope buoy him up.
The buoy fastened on to the sounding-line had not yet been seen.
In bad weather heavy seas toss the buoy, and the bell rings.
You would pass close to the buoy without knowing it.
Let us remark here, by the way, that this ringing buoy, a kind of bell tower on the deep, was removed in 1802.
A long cord is attached to this end, to that a small buoy which floats on the surface, so that when the whale dies they know where to find it.
Sometimes good fishing may be had from 6 to 12 mile, from Great Round Shoal buoy.
He then swam out to a buoy moored about a quarter of a mile away.

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