pipe-clay

1. 1.

   whiten or clean with pipe-clay

   “pipe-clay leather”

   Broaderclean

Questions about pipe-clay

What does pipe-clay mean?

pipe-clay means "whiten or clean with pipe-clay".

How many syllables are in pipe-clay?

pipe-clay has 3 syllables and divides as pi-pe--clay 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 pipe-clay a common word?

pipe-clay 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.