cheville

cheville

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englanti puhekieltä word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced
1905, w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, s:The Art of Writing|The Art of Writing
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, s:English as we speak it in Ireland|English as we speak it in Ireland, s:English as we speak it in Ireland/IV|chapter 5
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.
ankle
dowel, peg
wall plug
puhekieltä English cheville
ankle (gloss)

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