Definitions for cansos

cansos Can·so

Spelling: [kan-soh]
IPA: /ˈkæn soʊ/

Cansos is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in cansos (acnoss).

Definitions for cansos

noun

  1. Cape, a cape in SE Canada, the NE extremity of Nova Scotia.
  2. Strait of, Also called Gut of Canso. a channel in SE Canada that separates mainland Nova Scotia from Cape Breton Island, flowing NW from the Atlantic Ocean to Northumberland Strait. About 17 miles (27 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.

Examples for cansos

So Elizabeth did not go to Canso, where the hospitals had been removed.

On this now decaying porch no doubt lovers sat in the moonlight, and vowed by the Gut of Canso to be fond of each other forever.

On the 4th of April, 1745, the expedition had arrived at Canso.

The same gale had swept the coast from Hatteras to Canso with destructive fury.

A third vessel was dispatched under Pontgravé to the Strait of Canso, to protect the exclusive trading privileges of the company.

There could not be a more magnificent night in which to ride towards that geographical mystery of our boyhood, the Gut of Canso.

Another raid was made on Canso, and another batch of prizes was captured.

From this was developed the Canso, the most usual of Provençal forms.

The fleet, in gaining the Gut of Canso, had been assailed by dangers.

He raided the harbor of Canso, to the great alarm of the inhabitants, and broke up the fishery.

Word Value for cansos
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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