elshinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

elshin (複数形 elshins)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) An awl.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, [...] In Four Volumes (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, または IV), Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, OCLC 819902302:

     D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other Arniston chield there, without muckle greater parts, if the close-head speak true, than mysell, maun be presidents