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say it: MAHR-ti-ngayl
martingale is a noun meaning "a harness strap that connects the nose piece to the girth; prevents the horse from throwing back its head". It is pronounced /ˈmɑɹtɪˌŋeɪl/ — MAHR-ti-ngayl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a harness strap that connects the nose piece to the girth; prevents the horse from throwing back its head
spar under the bowsprit of a sailboat
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for martingale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.