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Yelve vs Elve - What's the difference?

yelve | elve |

As nouns the difference between yelve and elve

is that yelve is a fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool while elve is an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.

yelve

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.

    • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 ----

    elve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
  • * '>citation
    • Sir Olof he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve -dance gay.

    See also

    * blue starter * bluejet * gigantic jet * gnome * pixie * red sprite * sprelve * sprite halo * sprite * transient luminous events * troll * upward lightning ----