OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2391

elbow

/ˈɛlbəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
codo
The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meanin…
Up to the elbowes naked were there Armes.
codo
Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five f…
the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back
codazo
A hit, strike, or blow with the elbow.
England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walke…
In the fair dinkum department that elbow prop Barrie McDermott threw into the face of Paul Sironen deserved to get him four months on the side-lines[.]
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