Definitions for gunwale

gunwale gun·wale

Spelling: [guhn-l]
IPA: /ˈgʌn l/

Gunwale is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in gunwale (aeglnuw).

Definitions for gunwale

noun

  1. the upper edge of the side or bulwark of a vessel.
  2. the sheer strake of a wooden vessel; the uppermost strake beneath the plank-sheer.

Origin of gunwale

1325-75; Middle English. See gun1, wale1; a plank so called because guns were set upon it

Examples for gunwale

All he discovered was a brown stain on the gunwale abreast of the thwart.

I made a grab at the gunwale, and caught it in the stern-sheets.

I jumped into the cockpit and leaned over the gunwale beside the rod.

Others of the head hunters were scrambling over the gunwale.

Wasub held on to the gunwale as to a last hope of a further confidence.

"I'm going myself," he said firmly, putting one foot over the gunwale.

Two had been sitting on the gunwale of it, and now lay down.

The drift of the boat had brought us so close that he could have grasped the gunwale had he been so minded.

Madden seized it, whispered his own name and scuttled in over the gunwale.

Josh leaned over the gunwale, and reported that there was no fender out.

Word Value for gunwale
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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