fourteener
nounEtymology From fourteen + -er.
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Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Poetry, Publishing, Writing 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.1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography: