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elbowed - What does it mean?

Definition of 'elbowed'

English

Verb

(head)
  • (elbow)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • 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.
  • (in combination ) Having some specific type of elbow
  • Derived terms

    * sharp-elbowed

    Similar to 'elbowed'

    elevated, eloped, elapid, elopid, ellobiid, eulophid