Definitions for buntlines

buntlines bunt·line

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

Buntlines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 388 anagrams from letters in buntlines (beilnnstu).

Definitions for buntlines

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 buntlines

First recorded in 1620-30; bunt2 + line1

Examples for buntlines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for buntlines
Scrable

10

Words with friends

15

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