elsin

See also: Elsin

English

Alternative forms

elsen

Etymology

From Middle English aslen, elsen (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old High German alansa, alansa, from Proto-Germanic *ali-sn, Proto-Germanic *ala-sn, or from an unrecorded OE form.

Noun

elsin (plural elsins)

(Britain, dialectal) A shoemaker's awl.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for elsin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

LINEs, Niles, lenis, liens, lines, lisne

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