Definitions for lifeboats

lifeboats life·boat

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

Lifeboats is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 696 anagrams from letters in lifeboats (abefilost).

Definitions for lifeboats

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 lifeboats

First recorded in 1795-1805; life + boat

Examples for lifeboats

The two men returned to the lifeboat preparatory to leaving.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for lifeboats
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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