kelt
noun
a salmon that has spawned.
kelt
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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
All this trouble for a kelt of about 6 lb.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior
The bull-trout, for some obscure reason, is not at all responsive to his efforts, except in its kelt stage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
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 William Senior
Alas! it was kelt number two, and not more than 10 lb. at that.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior
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
Two bores have turned up unusable water, and he had to turn to the Wadi Kelt supply some five miles away.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first of the two main fords in the lower Jordan is just below the point where the Wady Kelt enters the Jordan from the west and deposits its mass of mud and silt.
From The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
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