Word: boottoppings
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: boo
tto
ppings
Definition: Plural of boottopping. The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.
Morphemes:
Affix: boot
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
Affix: top
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Topboots.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
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.