Kelt

//kɛlt// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of Celt. alt-of, obsolete
  2. 2
    A thin, recently spawned iteroparous salmon.
  3. 3
    Pronunciation spelling of kilt. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "I know fine hoo a kelt should be pit on, though I'm no Highlander mysel'"

  4. 4
    Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool. Scotland

    "ye've a very raggit kelt on"

  5. 5
    a member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times wordnet

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celt

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"Glorious London! Leviathan of human greed; palpitating hot-bed of iniquity and joy; Greek, Roman, Spanish, Saxon, Kelt, Scot, Pict, Norman and Dane have swept over thee like winter storms; and the mighty Cæsar, Julius of old, with a myriad of bucklered warriors and one hundred galleons of sailors, triple-oared mariners, defying wave and fate, have ploughed the placid face of Father Thames, startling the loud cry of hawk and bittern as his royal prows grated on thy strand, or skimmed over the marshes of thy infancy."

Etymology

Compare Icelandic kult (“quilt”).

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