Definitions for bilanders

bilanders bil·an·der

Spelling: [bil-uh n-der]
IPA: /ˈbɪl ən dər/

Bilanders is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 976 anagrams from letters in bilanders (abdeilnrs).

Definitions for bilanders

noun

  1. a small two-masted merchant vessel, a type of hoy distinguished by the trapezoidal shape of the mainsail, used especially on canals and along coasts of the Low Countries.

Origin of bilanders

1655-65; Dutch bijlander from obsolete Dutchbillander, binlander hoy1 in the sense “a vessel with large mast for sailing along coast” bij “by” + land “land”

Examples for bilanders

The bilander was a good sizable object, and not to hit her anywhere would be too bad.

They called her "the lugger," though her rig was widely different from that, and her due title was "bilander."

It is something between the modern ketch and the old Flemish 'bilander'.

There were three craft, all of different rig—a schooner, a ketch, and the said bilander.

Well, mynheer, you have only to pay the difference, and the ketch will do; the bilander sails almost as fast.

A bilander was a small two-master, with the mainsail of lateen form.

But the shot only threw up a long path of fountains, and the bilander ploughed on as merrily as before.

Word Value for bilanders
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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