Leeway is valid Scrabble Word

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

6 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for LEEWAY in dictionary:

NOUN:

the lateral drift of a ship
the amount of freedom to move or act that is available
margin of safety
the sideways drift of a ship to leeward of the desired course
room for free movement within limits
The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
(of a ship or plane) sideways drift
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

Words related to LEEWAY

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Words that contain LEEWAY

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How to use LEEWAY in a sentence

This was the more safe, inasmuch as the sea was perfectly smooth, and the vessel made no lee-way.
Soon, what with the wind and the sea, she made nothing but leeway.
If a sudden squall of wind overtook them the leeway would throw them upon the island breakers and they would be swallowed up in an instant and pounded to pieces upon the rocks.
They had held him prisoner for eight months, and he had some leeway to make up.
But it usually takes a hundred years for the world at large to make up its leeway.
However, the time is coming when we shall fetch up the leeway of our vessel.
Having no refuge here from my room and writing-table, it is my regular season for fetching up the lee-way of my correspondence.
Do as you pleased, she always made more leeway than anything else, and turning round and round was the manoeuvre she was best at.
The children in the German schools, who are selected at the age of ten for a more promising future than the trades hold out, have more leeway in the making of their decision.
From the whole sail being placed in the bow these canoes make much leeway, but when going free may attain a maximum speed of seven or eight knots an hour.

To lessen the tension would give the bear more leeway and so make the strain still greater.

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