binnacle

1. 1.

   a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm)

   Broaderhousing

Other forms of binnacle

plural

binnacles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about binnacle

What does binnacle mean?

binnacle means "a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm)".

How many syllables are in binnacle?

binnacle has 3 syllables: bin-na-cle. The stress falls on "bin".

Is binnacle a common word?

binnacle 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.