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elshins

elshins is the plural of elshin.

Meaning of elshin

Noun

elshin (plural elshins)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) An awl.
    • D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other Arniston chield there, without muckle greater parts, if the close-head speak true, than mysell, maun be presidents1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James...

Questions about elshins

What is elshins the plural of?
Elshins is the plural of elshin.

Words near elshins in the dictionary

  1. Elsey
  2. Elseys
  3. Elsfjord
  4. Elshibairab
  5. elshin
  6. elshins
  7. Elsie
  8. elsilimomab
  9. elsin
  10. Elsing
  11. elsinochrome

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