fourteener

American  

[fawr-tee-ner, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˈti nər, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

Prosody.

1. a line, especially an iambic line, consisting of 14 syllables.

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Etymology

Origin of fourteener

First recorded in 1820–30; fourteen + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Another example is that time Powell rode alongside Jakomait to the trailhead of fourteener Mount of the Holy Cross - after Jakomait spent the dark hours of the morning riding out his own 50-mile sufferfest.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018

Forest Service specialist flagging fourteener trails to replace those damaged by erosion.

From Washington Times • Sep. 9, 2017

This measure is the old fourteener, which struggles to appear in the Cid, regularly divided into hephthemimers, and now regularly arranged also in mono-rhymed quatrains.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, which has been denied to him—an interesting play on the rare basis of the old romance—is written not in blank verse but in the fourteener.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

Many critics deny that three quatrains followed by a couplet constitute a true sonnet, and Professor Brander Matthews always calls this form not a sonnet but a "fourteener."

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce