r 1 a 1 t 1 l 1 i 1 n 1 e 1
7 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft
originApparently a corruption of raddling by folk-etymological reanalysis as rat + line.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- aliner 6
- altern 6
- antler 6
- entail 6
- larine 6
- learnt 6
- linear 6
- linter 6
- nailer 6
- ratine 6
- ratlin 6
- renail 6