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terms | cheville |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb cheville is

.

As an adjective cheville is

pinned, pegged (attached by a pin, peg).

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

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    cheville

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced
  • * 1905 ,
    • The genius of prose rejects the cheville' no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the ' cheville , I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.
  • * 1910 , Patrick Weston Joyce,
    • The practice of using chevilles' was very common in old Irish poetry, and a bad practice it was; for many a good poem is quite spoiled by the constant and wearisome recurrence of these ' chevilles .
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