besail

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 8
Words With Friends: 10
Letters: 6

Definition of besail

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(archaic, poetic, rare, transitive)To attack or assail; lunge at or toward; assault.

“The civvies and the brakesmen, with clubs they did me besail; They marched me right straight over to the Albany Jail […]”
“The narrow besailed giants stood with long limbs rooted deep in the surface. Every so often a leg would ponderously rise and anchor itself elsewhere, as a sifter repositioned itself with the changing wind.”
“No mater what besails us, no matter how much pain, loss or sorrow we endure, something deep within us rises to the occasion, in fusing us with Strength and Courage to get beyond what ever this world of earthly existence throws in our unknowing paths […]”
“He remembered a vision which once besailed him suddenly.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From be- (“at, toward”) + sail (“to attack, assail”), from Middle English sailen (“to attack”), short for assailen (“to assail”).

Anagrams of besail

10 plays · some not in Scrabble

Best play abseil 8 points

Words you can make from besail

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Best play abseil 8 points

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9 words

4-letter words

31 words

3-letter words

27 words

2-letter words

14 words

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