Definitions for lifeboat

lifeboat life·boat

Spelling: [lahyf-boht]
IPA: /ˈlaɪfˌboʊt/

Lifeboat is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 336 anagrams from letters in lifeboat (abefilot).

Definitions for lifeboat

noun

  1. a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
  2. a similarly constructed boat used by shore-based rescue services.

Origin of lifeboat

First recorded in 1795-1805; life + boat

Examples for lifeboat

In addition, I have my hands, tools, and materials to work with here in the lifeboat.

The two men returned to the lifeboat preparatory to leaving.

After reading the manual on lifeboat operation there was but one course open.

A rising tide lifts all boats…but a lifeboat carrying a few, surrounded by many treading water, risks capsizing.

Like when Smith and his family managed to crowd onto a lifeboat—which then failed to deploy.

She was dangerous to approach, but the lifeboat reached her.

The Countess deftly steered the lifeboat, a resolute and unlikely vision in her ermine and pearls.

But the pirates sabotage the deal and make off in a lifeboat with Phillips, along with $30,000 in cash.

After an incredibly suspenseful standoff, the marksmen take out the pirates in the lifeboat, saving Phillips.

Now he was brought up, and all were taken aboard the lifeboat.

Word Value for lifeboat
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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