dactyl means A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why this word is great
DACTYL — [Noun] A metrical foot in prosody consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. From the Latin dactylus, from the Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, "finger"), the three joints of the finger likened to the three syllables of the foot. Unlike the anapest (which gallops in on a pair of light steps to a final, urgent thud) or the trochee (which offers a brusque, binary clop, lacking the dactyl's lingering diminuendo), the dactyl is a decisive fall, a forward-falling cascade. It is the percussive rhythm of a horse's canter across hard ground, the stately, melancholy cadence of "This is the forest primeval," and the inexorable tick-tocking of a grandfather clock. It is the meter of inevitability, a forceful onset that dwindles into memory.
noun
- A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.“Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]”