mouldboard

Questions about mouldboard

What does mouldboard mean?

mouldboard means "wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow".

How many syllables are in mouldboard?

mouldboard has 3 syllables and divides as mo-uld-board 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.

What is another word for mouldboard?

Close synonyms include moldboard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mouldboard a common word?

mouldboard 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.