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kelt
1[ kelt ]
noun
- a salmon that has spawned.
Kelt
2[ kelt ]
noun
- Celt.
kelt
2/ kɛlt /
noun
- a salmon that has recently spawned and is usually in poor condition
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Derived Forms
- ˈKelticist, noun
- ˈKeltiˌcism, noun
- ˈKeltic, adjective
- ˈKeltically, adverb
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Other Words From
- Keltic noun adjective
- Kelti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of kelt1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of kelt1
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Example Sentences
Bull trout very rarely takes fly or bait of any kind, except when it is in the kelt state, when it is ravenous.
"I thought a kelt was a kind of a no-weel fish," he interposed.
The lager-drinking Irishman in a few generations will be a new type of humanity—the Kelt at his best.
She always impresses me as a sort of atavistic idealization of the old Kelt at his finest and best.
An old "kelt" salmon has been seen to devour fifty of his own progeny for breakfast; and the pike is a greater water-wolf still.
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