catboat

1. 1.

   a sailboat with a single mast set far forward

   Broadersailboat

Other forms of catboat

plural

catboats·

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 catboat

What does catboat mean?

catboat means "a sailboat with a single mast set far forward".

How many syllables are in catboat?

catboat has 3 syllables and divides as cat-bo-at 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.