thumbstall

1. 1.

   protective covering for an injured thumb

   Broaderprotective covering

Other forms of thumbstall

plural

thumbstalls·

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 thumbstall

What does thumbstall mean?

thumbstall means "protective covering for an injured thumb".

How many syllables are in thumbstall?

thumbstall has 2 syllables and divides as thumb-stall 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.