Elbows
Elbows often touch effortful labour and the question of fair return — arduous work that may bring only small reward. The dream may ask where you're putting in hard, repetitive effort for little reimbursement, what opportunity might still come of it, and whether the toil of your hands is being valued at anything near its true cost.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for elbows, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see elbows in a dream, signifies that arduous labors will devolve upon you, and for which you will receive small reimbursements.
For a young woman, this is a prognostic of favorable opportunities to make a reasonably wealthy marriage. If the elbows are soiled, she will lose a good chance of securing a home by marriage.