Word: seacocks
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: sea
cocks
Definition: Plural of seacock. A valve in the hull of a vessel used to let in water, either to clean the bilges, flood a ballast tank, or scuttle the vessel
Morphemes:
Affix: sea
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
Affix: cock
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Shuttlecock; send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock
Etymology Compounds: Affix: coque
Language: fro
Decoded: coque
Meaning: a type of small boat
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.