cross-ply

1. 1.

   of or relating to an older kind of automobile tire that had a flexible tread and relatively stiff sidewalls

Questions about cross-ply

What does cross-ply mean?

cross-ply means "of or relating to an older kind of automobile tire that had a flexible tread and relatively stiff sidewalls".

How many syllables are in cross-ply?

cross-ply has 2 syllables and divides as cros-s-ply 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 cross-ply a common word?

cross-ply 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.