Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

at the elbow

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: at the el-bow
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Very near; close at hand.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"I was half out of bed, and Duncan had been hanging at the elbow of these fighting cocks, ready to intervene upon the least occasion"
"Many times in my life, standing in long sea-boots and streaming oilskins at the elbow of my commander on the poop of a homeward-bound ship making for the Channel, and gazing ahead into the gray and tormented waste, I have heard a weary sigh shape itself into a studiously casual comment"
"She had been brought up at the elbow of this country practitioner; she had lived with him as though she had been his daughter; she had been for years the ministering angel of his household; and, till her heart had opened to the natural love of womanhood, all her closest sympathies had been with him."

Usage

Archaic

Questions

What does at the elbow mean?: Very near; close at hand.

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