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Is fust a Scrabble word?

Yes, fust is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of fust?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.Examples: "Cherici, Giuseppe, & Sons, Volterra. A large alabaster vase, after the Etrurian style; executed in the exhibitors' manufactory in Volterra, […] The vase is placed on the fust of a column of the Tuscan order."; "Façade of the Benedictines' convent and church wonderfully crowded with ornaments, as likewise the altars generally adorned with twisted pillars flourished all over, and loaden with little puttini, birds, and the like in clusters on the chapiters and between the wreaths along the fusts of the columns."

verb (English)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.Examples: "Sure he that made vs with ſuch large diſcourse / Looking before and after, gaue vs not / That capabilitie and god-like reaſon / To fvſt in vs vnvſed, […]"; "I mowlde, or fust, as corne dothe. Je moisis, sec. conj."; "I marvel that the clergy don't propose / A day of fasting and humiliation, / As they did when potatoe crops were fusted;— / We're now much worse, when porridge-pots are rusted."intransitiveobsolete

2. (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.Examples: "VI. To prevent wine from fuſting, otherwiſe taſting of the caſk, and to give it both a taſte and flavour quite agreeable. Stick a lemon with cloves as thick as it can hold; hang it by the bung hole in a bag over the wine in the caſk for three or four days, and ſtop it very carefully for fear of its turning dead, if it ſhould get air."intransitive

noun (English)

1. (nautical, historical) A type of small galley.Examples: "The great hoste abode still till noone or one of the clocke, and then arose, not all, but about 80 or 100 ships, as gallies, galliasses, and fusts: and passed one after another before the towne and haven of Rhodes three miles off, and came to shore in a place nigh to land, called Perambolin, sixe miles from the towne."; "The reſt of our ſhips hearing us ſhoot in that manner, entered into their boats, and made towards them, rowing hard to the thre Indian fuſts, wherein were at the leaſt 100 men, and ſhot amongſt them with their pieces, […] and we handled them in ſuch ſort, that of 200 men there got not above thirty of them to land; the reſt of their fuſts lay far off and beheld the fight."; "Sur stands on the coast of Syria, on the sea, twenty-five miles from Acre both by sea and land. Four or five large and long rocks lie in the sea before the city, some of them appearing a little above the water, the rest concealed below it. These rocks form the port of Sur, which admits ships of sixty or eighty tons, but none of a larger size; and all flat-bottomed fusts."historical

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "fust"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "fust"?

Scrabble
7 points
F4
U1
S1
T1
Words With Friends
8 points
F4
U2
S1
T1

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