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Definition of Tribrach
1. n. A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, m&ebreve;l&ibreve;ŭs.
Definition of Tribrach
1. Noun. A classical metrical foot having three short or unstressed syllables ¹
2. Noun. A circular platform on three legs each having levelling screws; used to connect a theodolite to a tripod ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tribrach
1. a type of metrical foot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribrach
Literary usage of Tribrach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Mine-surveying by Bennett Hooper Brough, Harry Dean (1920)
"tribrach Theodolites.—tribrach or three levelling-screw instruments differ very
considerably from the four levelling-screw instruments, which have so far ..."
2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"The parts of a divided tribrach may be connected with one another within the tribrach
... The form of divided tribrach least affected is that in which the ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... on second thoughts, that Brasidas was smothered in his case, and the Sophoclean
irony extinguished by a tribrach in the fifth foot. ..."
4. A System of English Versification: Containing Rules for the Structure of the by Erastus Everett (1848)
"Quantity of the tribrach. THE tribrach, composed of three short syllables, is
not often used, and always for the sake of variety alone. ..."
5. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"Some writers, again, recognize a foot of three unstressed syllables called the
tribrach, in such verses as these: From their | pure in ..."
6. A Grammar of the English Language by Samuel Stillman Greene (1868)
"09, 2 period of 09, 3 Tmesis, figure of. 315,10 To, when omitted 303, 1, a
Transformation of sentences 168 Transitive verb, defined. 83j 2 tribrach ..."
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