aftershafted

1. 1.

   having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers)

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Questions about aftershafted

What does aftershafted mean?

aftershafted means "having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers)".

How many syllables are in aftershafted?

aftershafted has 4 syllables and divides as af-ter-shaf-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is aftershafted a common word?

aftershafted is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.