"Elk" meaning in English

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      "form": "Elks",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, an American fraternal order."
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  "word": "Elk"
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          "ref": "1999, Lionel Smith, “Reading old DOS discs on a BBC”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):",
          "text": "Even modified it so that it would work with the differently ordered registers of an Electron. Never did get it working fully on the Elk, I think my Elk with Mode 7 box caused a problem with the use of IRQ workspace, system speed was also a factor IIRC.",
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          "ref": "2003, Gareth Williams, “What is Electron Elite V2?”, in alt.fan.elite (Usenet):",
          "text": "I'm pretty certain I remember seeing it on a price list when most BBC and Elk games had to be mail ordered (I think Impact was the mail order company - they also produced games like Zenon and Clogger).",
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        }
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        "An Acorn Electron computer."
      ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An Acorn Electron computer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Elk"
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  "pos": "name",
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          "name": "Canadian football",
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        "A team member of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Elks (formerly known as the Eskimos)."
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        "(Canadian football) A team member of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Elks (formerly known as the Eskimos)."
      ],
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        "football",
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        "sports"
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  "word": "Elk"
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        "A surname from Dutch."
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      ],
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          "ref": "1999, Lionel Smith, “Reading old DOS discs on a BBC”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):",
          "text": "Even modified it so that it would work with the differently ordered registers of an Electron. Never did get it working fully on the Elk, I think my Elk with Mode 7 box caused a problem with the use of IRQ workspace, system speed was also a factor IIRC.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Gareth Williams, “What is Electron Elite V2?”, in alt.fan.elite (Usenet):",
          "text": "I'm pretty certain I remember seeing it on a price list when most BBC and Elk games had to be mail ordered (I think Impact was the mail order company - they also produced games like Zenon and Clogger).",
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        }
      ],
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        "An Acorn Electron computer."
      ],
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        "(informal) An Acorn Electron computer."
      ],
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        "informal"
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  "word": "Elk"
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      ],
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      ],
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  "word": "Elk"
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