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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Elbow  \El"bow\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Elbowed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Elbowing}.] 
  To  push  or  hit  with  the  elbow,  as  when  one  pushes  by  another. 
 
  They  [the  Dutch]  would  elbow  our  own  aldermen  off  the 
  Royal  Exchange.  --Macaulay. 
 
  {To  elbow  one's  way},  to  force  one's  way  by  pushing  with  the 
  elbows;  as  to  elbow  one's  way  through  a  crowd. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  elbowing 
  n  :  jostling  with  the  elbows 




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