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Elsin

//ˈɛlzɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A shoemaker's awl. UK, dialectal, obsolete

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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