Definitions for buntline

buntline bunt·line

Spelling: [buhnt-lin, -lahyn]
IPA: /ˈbʌnt lɪn, -ˌlaɪn/

Buntline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in buntline (beilnntu).

Definitions for buntline

noun

  1. one of the ropes attached to the foot of a square sail to haul it up to the yard for furling.
  2. Ned, 1823–86, pen name of Edward Zane Carroll Judson.

Origin of buntline

First recorded in 1620-30; bunt2 + line1

Examples for buntline

buntline engaged a company to support the stellar trio, and the play was widely advertised.

Overhaul a buntline a little, bend the jigger to it, and trice up on deck.

The lining sewed up the fore-part of the sail in the direction of the buntline to prevent that rope from chafing the sail.

Buffalo Bill has since figured in one of buntline's Indian romances.

An eye worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, to receive a buntline.

buntline surprised us all by saying that he had not written the drama yet, but would do so at once.

Bitts tried to cry out; but when he did so, Phillips ordered the hands at the buntline to haul taut.

All that saved me was my answer to a question put by buntline.

Peaks, on the main topmast-stay, caught Howe in the very act of passing the gasket through the bight of the buntline.

But buntline was not to be balked in this way, and asked Nixon what he would rent the theater one week for.

Word Value for buntline
Scrable

10

Words with friends

15

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