tribrach

tribrach englanniksi

1. A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables.

2. 1589, (w), ''The Arte of English Poesie'', book ii, chapter xiii (Arb.), page 133:

For your foote tribracchus of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables.

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5. 1827, the Rev’d Canon Tate (headmaster)|James Tate, ''An Introduction to the Principal Greek Tragic and Comic Metres in Scansion, Structure, and Ictus'' (second edition, 1829), chapter xi: “The Ictus of the long Trochaic of Tragedy”, §5 (page 23):

Of all the resolved feet, the Tribrach in Trochaic verse with its ictus on the first syllable ⏑́⏑⏑ is most readily recognised by the ear as equivalent to the Trochee.

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1885|author=Thomas Dwight Goodell|chapter=Quantity in English Verse|title=Transactions of the American Philological Association|section=XVI, page 88

7. A figure (non-gloss) object having three arms (non-gloss) branches.

8. A tribrachial prehistoric flint implement.

9. {{quote-text|en|year=1873|author=Albert Way|chapter=Notes on an Unique Implement of Flint, Found, as Stated, in the Isle of Wight|title=Archaeological Journal|The Archæological Journal|section=XXX, page 31

10. {{quote-book|en|year=1897|author=Evans (archaeologist)|Sir John Evans|title=The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain|edition=revised second|chapter=iv|page=78

(rfquote-sense) A circular platform on three legs, each having levelling screws, used to connect a (l) to a (l).

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