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Kelt1. World English Historical Dictionary

Kelt1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Kelt1 Now only Sc. [Etym. unknown.] A salmon, sea-trout, or herling, in bad condition after spawning, before returning to the sea.

1 c. 1340.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 36. In playces et keltis emp., 6s.

2 1793.  Statist. Acc. Scotl., Forfar., VIII. 204. No salmon; except at the end of the fishing season, when a few of what are called foul fish, or kelt, are caught.

3 1834.  Jardine, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. No. 3. 51. The return of the old fish or kelts to the sea.

4 1884.  Speedy, Sport, vii. 80. Good runs with sea-trout kelts of considerable size.

5   attrib.  1883.  Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 96. Large Kelt Salmon … with arrow-headed parasites in the gills.

6   Hence Kelty a., like a kelt.

7 1884.  Chamb. Jrnl., 29 March, 204/2. Nothing but huge, lanky, kelty-looking fish.

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