Fourteener

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level. US
  2. 2
    A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From fourteen + -er.

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sea level

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