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celt

  [selt]
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–noun Archaeology.
an ax of stone or metal without perforations or grooves, for hafting.
Origin:
1705–15; < LL *celtis chisel, found only in the abl. case celte (Vulgate, Job XIX, 24)
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Celt

  [kelt, selt]
–noun
a member of an Indo-European people now represented chiefly by the Irish, Gaels, Welsh, and Bretons.
Also, Kelt.

Origin:
1695–1705; < L Celtae (pl.); in Gk Keltoí (pl.)

Celt

 
Celtic (def. 1).

Celt.

 
Celtic.
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celt   (sělt)   
n.  A common prehistoric tool of stone or metal, shaped like a chisel or ax head.

[Medieval Latin celtis, chisel.]
Celt   (kělt, sělt)   
n.  

  1. One of an Indo-European people originally of central Europe and spreading to western Europe, the British Isles, and southeast to Galatia during pre-Roman times, especially a Briton or Gaul.

  2. A native speaker of a modern Celtic language or a descendant of such a speaker, especially a modern Gael, Welsh person, Cornish person, or Breton.


[French Celte, sing. of Celtes, Celts, from Latin Celtae, from Greek Keltoi.]
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Word Origin & History

celt 
1715, from L. ghost word (apparently a misprint of certe) in Job xix:24 in Vulgate: "stylo ferreo, et plumbi lamina, vel celte sculpantur in silice;" translated, probably correctly, in KJV as, "That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever." But assumed to be a genuine carving tool, since it was in the Bible, and adapted by archaeologists for a class of prehistoric implements.

Celt 
1607, from L. Celta, singular of Celtæ, from Gk. Keltoi, Herodotus' word for the Gauls (who were also called Galatai). Used by the Romans of continental Gauls but apparently not of the British Celtic tribes. Celtic twilight is from Yeats's name for his collection of adapted Irish folk tales (1893).
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celt

characteristic New Stone Age tool, a polished stone ax or adz head designed for attachment to a wooden shaft and probably mainly used for felling trees or shaping wood. Great numbers of celts have been discovered in sites in the British Isles and Denmark; they were obviously traded widely. Bronze Age tools of similar general design are also called celts.

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