noun
a measure of length
• Hypernyms: ↑linear unit, ↑linear measure
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1. Also called long meter. Pros. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
2. See linear measure.
[1710-20]
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long measure noun
1. Lineal measure
2. (also long metre) quatrains of eight-syllable lines
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Main Entry: ↑long
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long measure,
= linear measure. (Cf. ↑linear measure)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.