Gallivats is valid Scrabble Word

Is gallivats a scrabble word?
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Is gallivats valid Words with Friends?
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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for GALLIVATS in dictionary:

NOUN:

GALLIVAT, (Portuguese) a large two-masted Malay boat

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How to use GALLIVATS in a sentence

The 4th was spent in preparations for a landing, and the gallivats rowed round the island to choose a landing-place.
Manuel de Castro, with his squadron of gallivats, had been ordered to lie off the mouth of the harbour and prevent reinforcements reaching Kennery.
A small expedition of eleven gallivats under Stanton was also fitted out, and a battery erected by the Portuguese at Surey to hinder provisions coming into Bombay, was captured.
To punish him, Captain Inchbird was sent with a small squadron, and seized eight of his fighting gallivats, together with a number of fishing-boats.
The following day, he sighted an Angrian squadron of seven grabs and eleven gallivats, which he chased for a couple of hours without success.
The smaller gallivats were covered with a spar deck made of split bamboos, their armament consisting of pettararoes fixed on swivels in the gunwale.
He had learned, moreover, by cautious and apparently casual inquiries, that the gallivats were under a guard of ten men, the grabs of twenty.
The hulls of the gallivats and their tall raking spars could now be seen looming up out of the blackness.
Six of the men on board the gallivats had been disposed of.
Even now perhaps boats were setting off, bringing rowers to man the gallivats, and oars to send them in pursuit.

At the same moment he caught sight of these he saw at last, rising from the gallivats, the thin tongue of flame he had so long expected.
To Desmond, turning every now and again to watch the increasing glare from the burning gallivats, it seemed that he scarcely advanced at all.
They appeared to be trying to cut out the middle of the three gallivats, which seemed to be as yet uninjured, while the vessels on either side were in full blaze.
The scene was brightly lit up, and he saw that two of the gallivats had been towed away from the burning vessels, from which the flames were now shooting high into the air.
A column of fire rose toward the sky from the gallivats that were blazing most brightly.
He knew that the grabs could not put to sea unless they were towed, and the gallivats being rendered useless, towing was impossible.
Leaving its moorings, it drifted among the main pirate fleet of grabs which still lay lashed together where Desmond had last seen them by the blaze of the burning gallivats.
They accordingly joined him with seven grabs and sixty gallivats.
The fleet which was destroyed consisted of eight grabs, one ship finished, two upon the stocks, and a good number of gallivats.

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