sextuplet
(ˈsɛkstjuːplɛt, -ˈtjuːplət)
[f. sextuple a. after triplet.]
A group, set, combination, etc. of six things. a. Mus. = sextolet. b. Any of six children born at one birth. c. A cycle for six riders.
| 1852 [see octuplet]. 1876 Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Sextolet, or Sextuplet, a double triplet, six notes to be performed in the time of four. 1894 Gould Illustr. Dict. Med., Sextuplet, one of six offspring from a single gestation. 1896 Daily News 17 July 7/1 A proposal was recently made..to match a sextuplet [sc. cycle] against a railway train. 1905 Daily Chron. 19 Oct. 5/3 Professor Hamy..reported that a negress living in the Gold Coast Colony gave birth recently to sextuplets. |