A variant spelling of 'elshin,' referring to a shinbone or a tool made from bone.
A dialectal variant of 'elshin,' derived from the same Old Norse or Germanic roots meaning 'leg bone,' used in Scottish and Northern English regions with slight spelling variation.
Spelling variation in older English shows us that standardization is recent—people once spelled words phonetically based on their accent, so 'elshin' and 'elsin' represent different regional pronunciations of the same word.
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