Usually means: Poetic meter with fewer syllables.
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  1. short meter: Merriam-Webster
  2. short meter: Wordnik
  3. short meter: Wiktionary
  4. Short meter: Dictionary.com
  5. short meter: FreeDictionary.org
  6. Short meter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (short meter)

noun:  (hymnody) A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic lines, of which the first, second, and fourth are in trimeter, and the third in tetrameter.

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