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say it: MER-i-mak
merrimac is a noun meaning "an ironclad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North". It is pronounced /ˈmɛɹɪmæk/ — MER-i-mak. It carries one recorded sense.
an ironclad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North
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 merrimac 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.