Definitions for Ell

Ell ell

Spelling: [el]
IPA: /ɛl/

Ell is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in Ell (ell).

Definitions for Ell

noun

  1. an extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
  2. elbow (def 5).
  3. something that is L -shaped.
  4. a former measure of length, varying in different countries: in England equal to 45 inches (114 cm).

Origin of Ell

First recorded in 1765-75; a spelling of the letter name, or by shortening of elbow

Examples for Ell

Ere, said he at last, jerking his head and rubbing his jaw, how the ell did you do it?

The ell is used as a kitchen, dining-room and storehouse combined.

Thirty feet by twelve, and an ell for cooking and an ell for stowage.

There 's a leetle word as begins with L. L, I mean, not 'ell.

E sent Donnelly to 'ell, and 'e's sending me there, too, curse 'im!

At Lyons, material was sometimes sold for as much as six hundred francs an ell.

"Give her an inch, and she'll take an ell," she had said to herself.

The room was a fairly large one, situated in an ell at the rear of the building.

Gawd love you, guv'nor, they'd fight 'ell's blazes, them chaps would!

Back of the main portion of the saloon was an ell, and it was in this ell that the fire had started.

Word Value for Ell
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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