Definitions for elk

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IPA: /ɛlk/

Elk is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in elk (ekl).

Definitions for elk

noun

1. Also called European elk. the moose, Alces alces.
2. Also called American elk, wapiti. a large North American deer, Cervus canadensis, the male of which has large, spreading antlers.
3. a pliable leather used for sport shoes, made originally of elk hide but now of calfskin or cowhide tanned and smoked to resemble elk hide.
4. (initial capital letter) a member of a fraternal organization (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks) that supports or contributes to various charitable causes.

Origin of elk

before 900; Middle English; Old English eolc, eolh; cognate with German Elch (Old High German el(a)ho), Latin alcēs, Greek álkē

Examples for elk

This means a decline in habitat quality for grazers like bison and elk, whose winter-killed carcasses grizzlies feed upon.

He obeyed their directions, and forthwith found himself to be an elk.

Either the child was buried at the same time the elk antler tools were made or 400 years later.

When elk saw the earth, he was so joyous, he rolled over and over on the earth.

That would have meant a fully re-vegetated (that is, lush with elk food) ice-free corridor.

It was now the season when the elk were bugling on the mountains.

I did not act in a foolish or disorderly manner at all, but Tennessee and elk River were in me.

The elk raised his proud, antlered head and looked in my direction.

And, from the south, chronic wasting disease is poised to decimate the elk herds.

Any elk habitat expert, modern hunters as well as biologists, might take a stab at the time required for elk to make that journey.