elshin

elshin

(ˈɛlʃɪn)
n
(Tools) Scot a cobbler's awl
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The OED cites the form elshin among its variant spellings and gives an illustrative example from one of my favourite Scottish authors, John Galt (1830): 'I never bored a hole with an elsin in my life'.
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