Conning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• persuade (someone) to do or believe something by lying to them
• study attentively or learn by heart (a piece of writing)
• direct the steering of (a ship)
NOUN:
• the act of directing, steering
• an instance of deceiving or tricking someone
• a disadvantage of or argument against something
• a convict
• a convention, especially one for science fiction enthusiasts
• the action or post of conning a ship
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to study carefully
• present participle of con

Words related to CONNING

con5 conn6 conne7 conned9 conns7 cons6

How to use CONNING in a sentence

• It is a train of armored cars with rapid-fire guns, conning towers and fighting tops.
• Men sprang up the steel ladder leading to the conning tower.
• But he did not say another word for several minutes, as if there were maps in his mind that he was conning before reaching a decision.
• In the conning tower, eagerly awaiting the word to fire, was Captain Gridley.
• An open book lies on the ground beside him, as if he had been conning its pages when the vision broke upon him.
• When the conning tower rose clear the German commander opened the hatch and smiled at his work.
• My station is up in the conning tower with de Robeck.
• The interior of the vessel was divided into an engine-room, a kitchen, combination dining-room and parlor, bunk rooms, and a conning tower, or place for the steersman.
• The professor, of course, would be in the conning tower and operate the craft.
• Andy came out of the conning tower and announced that Captain Henderson wanted Washington to get supper.
• Mark had the watch just after midnight, and was sitting in the conning tower, the door of which opened out on the small deck.
• As he watched it, the white object turned and glided without making the slightest noise, toward the conning tower.
• Half way on his journey to the conning tower Mark paused.
• Stricken with a nameless dread, Jack closed the water-tight door of the conning tower and made his way to the cabin.
• Jack looked from the observation windows in the conning tower and saw, about a mile away a big steamer.
• The only thing open about her was the air-and-water lock under the conning tower.
• Somebody at the lock under the conning tower hauled them in.
• The conning tower was twice as long as usual on a hunter-ship, and furnished with a lot of easy chairs and a couple of couches.
• Most of it was written by the evening lamp, on a pine table, about which the children of the family were gathered together conning their various lessons for the next day.
• Bobbing about at intervals in the maritime procession were other submarines, their conning towers silhouetted against the dim skyline.
• Lieutenant McClure nodded assent and then turned toward Jack, who had been watching the approaching Germans from a position on deck just aft the conning tower.
• Ted was to report to the conning tower at four bells for duty on watch.
• At the appointed hour Ted took up his station as lookout in the conning tower.
• Climb through the conning tower, run forward and dive off the bow.
• He now hurried back to the conning tower to be within call of his commanders.
• Three Germans who still remained cowering within the conning tower of the submarine submitted quietly to capture.
• The U-boat got under way with Lieutenant Bridwell, Jack, and the German pilot in the conning tower.
• Jack threw open the conning tower and climbed into the deck steering station.
• You are to open this conning tower and call out to the commander of this destroyer overhead that your U-boat has accidentally stumbled into this net.
• I am going to stand right here beside you in the conning tower with this revolver pressed squarely between your shoulders.
• By now the gas had increased in such volume that every man in the conning tower base was choking and coughing.
• Presently I fell in with the rest, and found myself conning the placard on the tree.
• I was conning this when a shout in my rear fetched me right-about face.
• I hardly dared raise my eyes from the paper which I was conning, leaning over the table in my shirt and trousers.

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