Word: scaling
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: sca
ling
Definition: The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.
Morphemes:
Affix: scale
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: escale
Language: fro
Decoded: escale
PoS: Noun
Meaning: shell (hard outer covering)
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.