Definitions for moult

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Spelling: [mohlt]
IPA: /moʊlt/

Moult is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in moult (lmotu).

Definitions for moult

noun

  1. an act, process, or an instance of molting.
  2. something that is dropped in molting.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cast or shed (feathers, skin, etc.) in the process of renewal.

verb (used without object)

  1. (of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, or the like, that will be replaced by a new growth.

verb (used with or without object), noun

  1. molt.

Origin of moult

1300-50; earlier mout (with intrusive -l-; cf. fault, assault), Middle English mouten, Old English -mūtian to change (in bi-mūtian to exc

Examples for moult

At the autumn moult, it obtains a long tail and a streaked crown.

Head black (with some white after the moult at Christmas), abdomen black.

All the other small hawks may moult in company with others of the same sex.

This is when the broken feather is to be imped merely for the purpose of the moult.

Jack was caught two or three times, and Dan and moult as often.

During a moult the cuticle of the head is cast separately from that of the body.

You always choose February to moult in, and you will have to be feathered down there.

In this species, after the first moult, the power of flight is lost for ever.

From the French muer, and the Latin mutare, to change, of hawks to moult.

As lobsters grow, they moult their hard exoskeletons—often eating them—which means that they can reach astonishing sizes.

Word Value for moult
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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