Definitions for seaways

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seaways sea·way

Spelling: [see-wey]

IPA: /ˈsiˌweɪ/

Seaways is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in seaways (aaesswy).

Definitions for seaways

noun

1. a way over the sea.
2. the open sea.
3. the progress of a ship through the waves.
4. a more or less rough sea:
5. a canal, enlarged river, etc., giving access to a landlocked port by oceangoing vessels.

Origin of seaways

before 1000; Middle English seewey, Old English sǣweg. See sea, way¹

Examples for seaways

Whatever the value of deep immersion may be in smooth water, there can be no question that it is much enhanced in a seaway.

The Fram, however, was too heavily laden to be at all easy in a seaway; but this we could not alter.

Moreover, she was the kindest boat in a seaway I ever boarded.

Loaded an ore boat with avgas and ammo and ran it up the seaway.

Reefing on a bowsprit in a seaway is a difficult and dangerous job.

The crew cheered, for it was a splendid shot at that distance and in a seaway.

The Inlet ends there, the seaway barred by these frowning declivities.

A craft so small could not reasonably be expected to live in such a seaway.

I only hope that they may know enough to pick up a boat in a seaway.

To be five miles from shore in a seaway in kayaks like ours was a sensation.