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elsin.

A shoemaker's awl.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɛlzɪn/
  1. A shoemaker's awl.

    UK · dialectal · obsolete
Where this word comes from

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, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.

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