Zell
name, noun ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of zero-length launch. abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
- 1 Former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands.
"I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]"
- 2 Ellipsis of Zell am See, a town in Salzburg, Austria. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Example
More examples"I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]"
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