elbowed

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛlbəʊd/

Verb

elbowed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of elbow

Adjective

elbowed (not comparable)

  1. Having bends or corners.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
      With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
  2. (in combination) Having some specific type of elbow

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