Definitions for dinghies

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dinghies din·ghy

Spelling: [ding-gee]

IPA: /ˈdɪŋ gi/

Dinghies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in dinghies (deghiins).

Definitions for dinghies

noun

1. any small boat designed as a tender or lifeboat, especially a small ship's boat, rowed, sailed, or driven by a motor.
2. a boat used by warships, having four single-banked oars and a spritsail.
3. any of various rowing or sailing boats used in sheltered waters along the Indian coasts to transport passengers and freight.
4. an inflatable life raft.

Origin of dinghies

1785-95; Bengali diṅgi, Hindi ḍiṅgī, diminutive of ḍiṅgā boat

Examples for dinghies

Then somebody who had a dinghy that he did not want asked her if she would like to have a boat.

In the uproar forward, Madden heard the cries: "Th' dinghy's swamped!"

A man in the stern of the dinghy groaned, and slumped down into the bottom.

First, as companies go, Carnival is more like an aircraft carrier than a dinghy.

We in the dinghy, as well as those on board, were listening anxiously.

Greer moved instantly to the rope ladder where the dinghy was tied.

We gave way with a vigour that seemed to lift the dinghy out of the water.

Then, with a start, he remembered his own dinghy, and how it would betray him.

Madden followed, trusting not to hit the dinghy and kill himself.

Officials said they believed Wood slipped off the yacht when she went on deck to reattach a dinghy that came loose.