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Elbow

noun

1.

Hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped. Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, cubitus, elbow joint, human elbow.

2.

A sharp bend in a road or river.

3.

A length of pipe with a sharp bend in it.

4.

The part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint.

5.

The joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow.

verb

(past & past part. elbowed; pres. part. elbowing)

1.

Push one's way with the elbows.

2.

Shove one's elbow into another person's ribs.

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"Elbow" Quotes from Famous Books

... entered by way of the side porch, just as he had done when Gabe Lumley's depot wagon first deposited him in that yard. But now he entered on tiptoe. The dining room was empty. He peeped into the sitting room. There, by the center table, sat Phoebe Dawes, her elbow on the arm of her chair, and her head ...

— Cy Whittaker's Place • Joseph C. Lincoln

... little Capacity, or Inclination, to argue upon this Subject; and being a little indolent withal, I shall take the Liberty of entertaining to Day with a Story, that lies ready at my elbow; and which I declare before-hand, has no significant Meaning in it, that I know of: If the Sagacity of my Readers can make more of it than my self, in God's Name, let them ...

— The Theater (1720) • Sir John Falstaffe

... with frequent pinches of snuff and chunks of coffee-cake which they drew from inexhaustible pockets. My attempts at conversation with these two having been met with chilling silence, and as Mrs. Mooney had given me several painful thrusts with her sharp elbow when I happened to get too close to her, I took care to keep a safe distance, puzzled as to wherein I might have offended, and lapsing into a morbid interest in the gossip flying thick and fast ...

— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson

... in a house like that. The floor was littered with debris, including a number of hard buns which she could not now eat, but which some charitable neighbour had sent her. She had a wizened baby of seven months, which every now and then she was trying to feed by raising herself on one elbow and forcing bread and water pap, moistened with the merest suspicion of condensed milk, down its throat. None of her four previous children had lived so long. She had been under my care three years before for sailor's scurvy. Her present illness lasted only a week, and in spite ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... willing and smiling service always within the call of a hand clap, there comes a sense of restfulness and peace. The drawback which the Western man experiences is the lack of any means of resting his back but by lying down and the inability to read for long while resting an elbow on an arm rest which is too low for him.[218] A Japanese often reads kneeling ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

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