Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

otter board

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: ot-ter board
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the large rectangular boards used on an otter trawler to keep the mouth of the net open by hydrodynamic forces, and to dig into the seabed to startle fish.

Inflected Forms

otter boards (plural)

Questions

What does otter board mean?: Any of the large rectangular boards used on an otter trawler to keep the mouth of the net open by hydrodynamic forces, and to dig into the seabed to startle fish.

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