Elsen

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An awl, a pointed tool. UK, dialectal

    "piercing with an elsen"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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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