ATDTDA 767-769

[Michael Bailey]

ya sam explicated, and grladams excavated...
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>  ATDTDA 768
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>  fourteener
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>  In mountaineering terminology in the United States, a fourteener is a
>  mountain that exceeds 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) above mean sea level.


just wanted to note, it also has a meaning in poetry,
either a line with 14 syllables or sometimes a 14-line sonnet.

obviously, the context suggests mountaineering, but (like Kit)
a long trip up the Taklamakan of alternate meanings could
be interesting though I have no remit to suggest this