Westing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 176 anagrams from letters in westing (eginstw).
First recorded in 1620-30; west + -ing1
Likewise, if the ship is moving westward, an allowance must be made for the westing of the ship.
But such a calculation does not take into consideration the easting or westing of the ship itself.
Not alone were they nimble because of the westing, but a benignant sun was shining down and limbering their stiff bodies.
And when the sun's westing told us it was time to go home, we went down all the way talking.
The sun was westing; the shadows stretched among the evergreen oaks; the outer air was sweet.
The westing we were making brought us among people who are frequently visited by the Mambari as slave-dealers.
Well, this is running your westing down if anybody should ride up in a go-devil and ask you.
In order to move the mountain of flesh a westing purchase and a "handy-billy" (rope and block purchase) had to be rigged.
Since then, and up till noon, I had made 23.7 miles of westing.
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