elbowed
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛlbəʊd/
Verb
elbowed
- simple past tense and past participle of elbow
Adjective
elbowed (not comparable)
- 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.
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- (in combination) Having some specific type of elbow
Derived terms
- sharp-elbowed
Anagrams
- boweled