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Noun Concept
Categories: Obsolete units of measurement, Units of length, Human-based units of measurement, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement
EN
ell  cubit  aune  ell-wand  Ellwand
EN
An ell is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit. Wikipedia
English:
Scots
Scottish length
unit
Definitions
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Sources
EN
An ell is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit. Wikipedia
Measure of length. Wikipedia Disambiguation
An ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm. OmegaWiki
Measure of cloth. Wiktionary (translation)
A measure for cloth. An English ell was 1+1⁄4 yards (45 inches), whereas a Scottish ell measured only about 37 inches and a Flemish ell was 3⁄4 yard (27 inches). Wiktionary
IS A
British Imperial System
unit eeeof length
obsolete unit of length
PART OF
arshin
system of measures in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
HAS KIND
guz
DA
wasser-alen
DE
Brabanter Elle
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Nordisk familjebok
Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
DIFFERENT FROM
Auna
MEASURED PHYSICAL QUANTITY
length
NAMED AFTER
elbow
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
cubit
braccio
alen
Wikipedia
EN
ell
Wikidata
EN
ell
Wiktionary
EN
ell
OmegaWiki
EN
cubit, ell
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
aune, ell-wand, Ell (Scots), Ellwand, Flemish ell, ulna (unit)

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