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elsin Obs. exc. north dial.|ˈɛlsɪn|
Forms: 5 elsyn(g, 6–9 elsen, 5– elson, 8– elshin, 9– elsin.
[app. a. MDu. elssene (later elzen(e, mod.Du. els):—*alisna:—OTeut. *alasnâ (whence by transposition OHG. alansa, alunsa); f. the same root as awl + suffix as in OTeut. *segasnâ (-isnâ), Ger. sense scythe. (The Teut. word was adopted into Romanic: cf. Sp. alesna, lesna, It. lésina, Fr. alêne, Pr. alena.)]
An awl.
c1440Promp. Parv. 138 Elsyn [v.r. elsyng], sibula. 1530Palsgr. 216/2 Elson for cordwayners, alesne. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 107 There lyes his elson and his lingle. a1774Fergusson Election, Syne wi' a muckle elshin lang He brogit Maggie's hurdies. 1830Galt Laurie T. iii. ix. (1849) 114, I never bored a hole with an elsin in my life. 1864Atkinson Whitby Gloss., Elsin, an awl. ‘As sharp as a cobler's elsin,’ acute.
2. Comb.: elsin-blade, the blade of an awl, or the awl itself; elsin-box, a box for holding awls; elsin-haft, the haft or handle of an awl; also, ‘the old designation for a jargonelle pear from its resemblance to the haft of an awl’ (Jam.).
1571Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) I. 261 Vj doss' elsen heftes..elsonblades viijs. viijd. 1805A. Scott Poems 57 (Jam.) Ane ca's a thing like elsin-box, That drools like corn-pipes Fu' queer that day. |