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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 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.