hand-dye

1. 1.

   dye by hand

   “This fabric is hand-dyed”

   Broaderdye

   Narrowertie-dyebatik

Questions about hand-dye

What does hand-dye mean?

hand-dye means "dye by hand".

How many syllables are in hand-dye?

hand-dye has 2 syllables and divides as hand--dye 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 hand-dye a common word?

hand-dye 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.