elsin

Not valid in Scrabble

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

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
7
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɛlzɪn/

Definition of elsin

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)A shoemaker's awl.

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

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