Ell vs Eld - What's the difference?
ell | eld |
A measure for cloth. An English ell' equals 1.25 yards, whereas a Scottish ' ell measures only 1.0335 yards (http://www.onlineunitconversion.com). A Flemish ell measured three quarters, (27 inches).
An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
Something that is L-shaped.
(rare, or, dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
* 1868 , John Eadie, A Biblical cyclopædia :
* 1913 , Paulist Fathers, Catholic world :
(archaic, or, poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
* 1912', Herbert Van Allen Ferguson, ''Rhymes of '''eld :
* 1912 , Arthur S. Way, translating Euripides, Medea , Heinemann 1946, p. 329:
* 1904 , , The Sun's Shame , II, lines 1-3
(archaic, or, poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
(archaic, or, poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 38:
(obsolete) Old.
(intransitive, archaic, poetic, or, dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
(intransitive, archaic, or, poetic) To delay; linger.
(transitive, archaic, or, poetic) To make old, age.
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As a pronoun ell
is (third-person masculine pronoun).As a noun eld is
(rare|or|dialectal) one's age, age in years, period of life.As an adjective eld is
(obsolete) old.As a verb eld is
(intransitive|archaic|poetic|or|dialectal) to age, become or grow old.ell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) eln “unit of measure of 45 inches,” originally “length of the forearm,” from Proto-Indo-European .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From the name of the letter LNoun
(en noun)eld
English
Alternative forms
* * (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)- The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.
- Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld .
- The withered limbs of eld , the thin, gray hair [...]
- the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.
- ''As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress
- ''Of life's disastrous eld , on blossoming youth
- ''May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth, -
- Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld , when the damosel fled with her lover.