long measure

noun

Also called long meter. Prosody. 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.
linear measure.

Origin of long measure

First recorded in 1710–20

Words nearby long measure

long lease, long leg, long list, long march, long mark, long measure, long metre, long moss, long muscle of head, long muscle of neck, long one

Example sentences from the Web for long measure

  • Richardson and Smollett and Fielding gave them a plenty of long-measure novels.

    The Spirit of America |Henry Van Dyke

British Dictionary definitions for long measure

long measure

noun

another name for linear measure