davits

Meaning of davits

plural noun

a small crane on board a ship, especially one of a pair for suspending or lowering a lifeboat.

late 15th century: from Old French daviot, diminutive of david, denoting a kind of carpenter's tool.

Information about davits

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of davits is: davit.
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Hyphenation of davits

davits

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • davits is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of davits

divast

Words that rhyme with davits

Kravits, affidavits, akvavits, aquavits, devastavits, supplicavits, blivits, Berkovits, Rubovits, cognovits

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