- another name for linear measure
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long′ meas′ure,
- PoetryAlso called long′ me′ter. [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.
- PoetrySee linear measure.
- 1710–20
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