Definitions for coamings

coamings coam·ing

Spelling: [koh-ming]
IPA: /ˈkoʊ mɪŋ/

Coamings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 388 anagrams from letters in coamings (acgimnos).

Definitions for coamings

noun

  1. a raised border around an opening in a deck, roof, or floor, designed to prevent water from running below.

Origin of coamings

1605-15; earlier coming, apparently equivalent to comb1 (in the sense of ‘crest’) + -ing1

Examples for coamings

Draw that box out and sit down beneath the coaming if you mean to stay.

There was a dark stain on the bare plank close against the coaming or ledge of the door of the Captain's cabin.

Marston, who sat on the yacht's coaming, splicing a rope, trusted Wyndham far.

I handed her up the last of the jars, and grasped the coaming of the hatch to clamber on to the deck, for the cargo came high.

I looked round to make sure that it were empty, then sneaks up and looks aft with my chin no higher than the coaming.

He sat beneath the coaming, as far as he could get out of the bitter wind.

Saving a little wrench when we hauled the cot over the coaming of the deck-house door, the poor man was put to no pain.

Then he climbed over the coaming and joined the men in the dory.

The Richard dipped with a swerve which threw him violently against the coaming.

The coaming was riddled as the deadly hail moved toward the bow.

Word Value for coamings
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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