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LIGHT-SHIP

Definition: LIGHT-SHIP

LIGHT-SHIP

Noun

1. A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LIGHT-SHIP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

 

Crosswords: LIGHT-SHIP

English words defined with "LIGHT-SHIP": Floating lightLight keeper, Light-boat. (references)

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Modern Translation: LIGHT-SHIP

Language Translations for "LIGHT-SHIP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

光运". (various references)

   

Korean 

  

불빛 발송하십시". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ight-shiplay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LIGHT-SHIP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lightship.

Words within the letters "g-h-h-i-i-l-p-s-t"

-1 letter: lightish.

-2 letters: plights, shilpit.

-3 letters: hights, lights, pistil, plight, slight, spilth, thighs.

-4 letters: gilts, highs, hight, hilts, light, pilis, piths, sight, sigil, slipt, spilt, split, thigh, tipis.

-5 letters: ghis, gilt, gips, gist, gits, high, hili, hilt, hips, hist, hits, lips, lisp, list, lits, phis, pigs, pili, pish, pith, pits, ship, sigh, silt, sith, slip, slit.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-h-i-i-l-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: lightships.

 

+4 letters: lithographies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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