piece-dye

1. 1.

   dye after weaving

   Broaderdye

Questions about piece-dye

What does piece-dye mean?

piece-dye means "dye after weaving".

How many syllables are in piece-dye?

piece-dye has 3 syllables and divides as pie-ce--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 piece-dye a common word?

piece-dye is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.