Dictionary Entry
convoy
convoy is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.
- 2noun
The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.
- 3noun
A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.
- 4noun
A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.
- 5noun
Conveyance; means of transportation.
- 6noun
A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.
- 7noun
the act of escorting while in transit
- 8noun
a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
- 9noun
a procession of land vehicles traveling together
- 10verb
escort in transit
"the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone"
"the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific"
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