Ellet

[ el-it ]

noun

1. Charles, Jr., 1810–62, U.S. civil engineer: builder of suspension bridges.

Example Sentences

An article on July 11 about a letter from Abraham Lincoln that sold at auction, using information provided by the Raab Collection, misidentified one of the three generals Abraham Lincoln mentioned in an Aug. 19, 1861, letter to Charles Ellet Jr., an American civil engineer and Union Army colonel.

From New York Times

And as if the whirligigs weren’t enough, May turned me to the kitchen, where she pulled open all the cabinet doors, plus the refrigerator, and she said, “Summer, whatever you like you can have and whatever you like that isn’t here Uncle Ob will go down to Ellet’s Grocery and get you. We want you to eat, honey.”

From Literature

Her mother, Ellet Dalling, previously said they had been left "devastated" by the shooting, and her daughter's children keep "asking where their mummy is".

From BBC

Her mother, Ellet Dalling, said they had been left "devastated" by the shooting and her daughter's children keep "asking where their mummy is".

From BBC

In her reading of Rachel Lynn Solomon’s “The Ex Talk,” Emily Ellet is instantly relatable as Public Radio producer Shay Goldstein, wrestling with her insecurities while butting heads with her know-it-all new co-worker, Dominic Yoon.

From Seattle Times