Davits is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 128 anagrams from letters in davits (adistv).
1325-75; Middle English daviot Anglo-French, apparently diminutive of Davi David
As soon as we are all clear, wear round—Let run that davit fall?
Touch the tackling of the davit, one of you; only touch it, and I'll cleave your skull.
"Trussed him up to the davit pole," he breathed in the inspector's ear.
So, so, an' did davit Lunan mak oot 'at there was humour in that?
It was hanging by the after davit, a mere bunch of smashed sticks.
The lashing which secures the davit to the shrouds when out of use.
This was proved by davit Lunan, tinsmith, whom I have heard tell the story.
But as it went Mayo clutched a davit pulley and swung in midair.
Then he moved off to a davit, and climbed the mizzen shrouds to the top-mast.
The davit blocks were treble for the lifeboats and double for the cutters.