taffrail

1. 1.

   the railing around the stern of a ship

   Broaderrailing

Other forms of taffrail

plural

taffrails·

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.

Questions about taffrail

What does taffrail mean?

taffrail means "the railing around the stern of a ship".

How many syllables are in taffrail?

taffrail has 2 syllables and divides as taf-frail 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.