kelt

IPA: kˈɛɫt

A thin, recently spawned iteroparous salmon.
(Scotland) Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.
Obsolete spelling of Celt [(historical) A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called Celtae by the Romans.]
Pronunciation spelling of kilt. [A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.]

Examples of "kelt" in Sentences

Let us still be thankful; a kelt is better than nothing,
Alas! it was kelt number two, and not more than 10 lb. at that.
Now I know it was the Food Poison Diet that gave you that svelte-kelt look!
The incidents that had to be deplored were what the salmon fisherman calls the kelt nuisance.
The gillie did not take up the gaff now, and my hopes were dashed, for it meant that he had recognised a kelt, which must be tailed.
Two fish showed during the day, a shockingly black beggar of not less than 30 lb. which jumped out of the water, and another kelt which plunged out of range.
A similar bit of frivolity was practised by another fish ten minutes later at my middle rod, which, I forgot to say, had brought the well-mended kelt to bank.
The boat of to-day, for example, accounted yesterday for one solitary kelt, though it had shared our experience of futile pulls and visible rises in the afternoon.
The first landing was to get rid of a kelt; and in all, if I may anticipate, we had five of them -- a small fish of, say, 6 lb., and the rest between 12 lb. and 15 lb.
Harling and the notebook were resumed, and lest we should settle down too readily to monotony, a flutter down stream betrayed the whereabouts of the Black Dog, betrayed also a wretched little kelt (about 5 lb.), called in these parts a "kelt grilse."