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elsen

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
5
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7
Letters
5

Definition of elsen

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (UK, dialectal)An awl, a pointed tool.
    “piercing with an elsen”
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noun

  1. (UK, dialectal)An awl, a pointed tool.
    “piercing with an elsen”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English elsen, elsyn, alsene (“an awl or some other pointed instrument or tool”), either from Middle Dutch elsene, alsene, from Old Dutch *elisna, *alasna, from Proto-West Germanic *alisnu, *alasnu, from Proto-Germanic *alasnō, or from an unrecorded Old English form.

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