Word: clothyards
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: clo
th
yards
Definition: Plural of clothyard. An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
Morphemes:
Affix: cloth
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
Affix: yard
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).