fourteener
English
Noun
fourteener (plural fourteeners)
- (US, climbing) A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level.
- (poetry) A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.
- 1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography
- He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.
- 1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography
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