Definitions for seaway

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seaway sea·way

Spelling: [see-wey]

IPA: /ˈsiˌweɪ/

Seaway is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in seaway (aaeswy).

Definitions for seaway

noun

1. a way over the sea.
2. the open sea.
3. the progress of a ship through the waves.
4. a more or less rough sea:
5. a canal, enlarged river, etc., giving access to a landlocked port by oceangoing vessels.

Origin of seaway

before 1000; Middle English seewey, Old English sǣweg. See sea, way¹

Examples for seaway

Moreover, she was the kindest boat in a seaway I ever boarded.

The crew cheered, for it was a splendid shot at that distance and in a seaway.

Reefing on a bowsprit in a seaway is a difficult and dangerous job.

The Inlet ends there, the seaway barred by these frowning declivities.

A craft so small could not reasonably be expected to live in such a seaway.

Whatever the value of deep immersion may be in smooth water, there can be no question that it is much enhanced in a seaway.

I only hope that they may know enough to pick up a boat in a seaway.

To be five miles from shore in a seaway in kayaks like ours was a sensation.

Loaded an ore boat with avgas and ammo and ran it up the seaway.

The Fram, however, was too heavily laden to be at all easy in a seaway; but this we could not alter.