Talk:alnager

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RFV discussion: February–March 2023

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Sense 1: "A measure by the ell." Bit baffled by what this definition means and all the uses I could find refer to sense 2, a cloth inspector. Samuel Johnson's dictionary does define it as a "measurer by the ell", but he's also talking about the cloth inspector, who measured cloths to make sure they were the right dimensions. Added by @Equinox ages ago. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 11:51, 20 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

This came from an old dictionary (Webster or Imperial); I found it in Google Books and it says "a measurer by the ell", so this is a typo I made apparently. Equinox 18:56, 20 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

RFV-failed, we have the correct sense in the entry anyway This, that and the other (talk) 23:56, 26 March 2023 (UTC)Reply