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Elk

//ɛlk// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A team member of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Elks (formerly known as the Eskimos). Canadian
  2. 2
    A surname from Dutch.
  3. 3
    Acronym of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

    "Of course, ELK doesn't come without operational burden."

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).; Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces, the largest member of the deer family, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia. Commonwealth, Europe
  2. 2
    Obsolete form of elke (common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus)). alt-of, obsolete
  3. 3
    A member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, an American fraternal order.
  4. 4
    An Acorn Electron computer. informal

    "Even modified it so that it would work with the differently ordered registers of an Electron. Never did get it working fully on the Elk, I think my Elk with Mode 7 box caused a problem with the use of IRQ workspace, system speed was also a factor IIRC."

  5. 5
    common deer of temperate Europe and Asia wordnet
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  1. 6
    Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).; Common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer. Canada, US
  2. 7
    large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male wordnet
  3. 8
    Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).; Sambar (Cervus unicolor). British, India

    "In a narrow defile […] a male elk, (cervus alces, Lin.) of noble appearance, followed by twenty-two females, passed majestically under their platform, each as large as a common-sized horse."

  4. 9
    large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called ‘elk’ in Europe and ‘moose’ in North America wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English elk, from Old English eolc, eolh (“elk”), from Proto-West Germanic *elh, from Proto-Germanic *elhaz, *algiz (“elk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élḱis, *h₁ólḱis, variant of *h₁elh₁én, from *h₁el- (“deer”). See also Low German Elk, German Elch, Danish elg, Norwegian elg, Swedish älg; also Polish łoś, Russian лось (losʹ), Vedic Sanskrit ऋश्य (ṛ́śya, “antelope”); also German Elen, Tocharian A yäl, Tocharian B ylem (“gazelle”), Lithuanian élnis (“stag”), Armenian եղնիկ (eġnik, “doe, hind”). Doublet of Elhaz.

Etymology 2

Perhaps a reduced form of Dutch van Elk.

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