kelt
noun
a salmon that has spawned.
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Etymology
Origin of kelt
1300–50; Middle English (north) < ?
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There’s also the Yakama Nation’s kelt reconditioning program, which collects female steelhead at Prosser Dam and strengthens them for their journey to the Pacific.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 23, 2017
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.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William
The future ‘Bonny Lass of Albanie’ was to be marked, like a kelt returned to the river in spring.
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Lang, Andrew
The sight of the Highland kelt, the flowing plaid, the buskined leg, provokes my antagonist to laugh!
From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria
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.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William
Creator Mike Kelt from Artem has previously said finding a new site for the giant structure "probably means a very large headache".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2022
And that, Mr Kelt said, was "obviously the reaction we wanted".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2022
In an email to me, Falcon Northwest president Kelt Reeves says the design is quite similar, but he’s being far too modest — this refreshed FragBox is elegant.
From Forbes ● May 1, 2013
In the first week of the war, an Israeli pilot in an F-4 intercepted a Kelt flying toward Tel Aviv and shot it down.
From Time Magazine Archive
The colony in the Wady Kelt used burrows excavated by themselves, and many a hole did they relinquish, owing to the difficulty of working it.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 by Various
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