Definitions for ells

ells ell

Spelling: [el]
IPA: /ɛl/

Ells is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in ells (ells).

Definitions for ells

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 ells

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

Examples for ells

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for ells
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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