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Meanings of ell in English
Unit of length.
Synonyms
Examples for "cubit"
Examples for "cubit"
1
Its description is this:-Inlength it was little less than a cubit.
2
Its breadth on each side was a cubit, but the altitude double.
3
No one had dared to add one cubit to its grey stature.
4
So saying, he chopped off about a cubit of the snake's tail.
5
Now the thickness of the table was not less than half a cubit.
1
At the supper table the four big sons towered above Van Alen.
2
Ninde kept looking up at Alen, till Gold-Eye hesitantly touched her shoulder.
3
Otto asked, as he watched Van Alen arrange the covers on the couch.
4
You can appreciate the effort the players have put in. -Coach Alen Stajcic.
5
And as she smiled back, Van Alen turned on his heel and left them.
1
Loire to Romorantin, with a channel one braccio wide and one braccio deep.
2
The cornice below the windows 16 soldi per braccio
3
Again, who will draw best a line one braccio long, which shall be tested by a thread.
4
The chimneys of the castle of Pavia have 6 rows of openings and from each to the other is one braccio.
5
This should be 3 braccia and a half high and 3 braccia wide; 7 braccia distant from you and 1 braccio from the model.
Usage of ell in English
1
The smoke was coming out of the kitchen chimney in the ell.
2
Kennedy had voluntarily placed himself in front of me in the ell.
3
He almost dived out upon the tinned roof of the kitchen ell.
4
They wandered back and forth, Nish probing every ell of the way.
5
The Greek ell is equal to one foot and a half English.
6
The lost ell-and-yard is Orion's sword and belt, I may tell you-
7
If I give that woman an inch, she will take an ell.'
8
One morning she jumped from her balcony and ell to her death.
9
Those was his very words, miss, an 'ouse of 'ell, he said.
10
Who in 'ell's a'goin' to draw the water for the mornin' tea?
11
An' now you say to me, 'Frenchy, 'oo the 'ell are you?'
12
And every ell of that triumph shall be mine, sir,-ay, every inch!
13
Hardly had the Tales left than the flames began to climb the ell.
14
Weak light coming from an ell ahead and to the left.
15
He sleeps in a large room in the ell, you know.
16
Being granted the inch, he was disposed to take the ell.
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Ell through the time
Ell across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common