Ket

[ ket ]

/ kɛt /

noun, plural Kets, (especially collectively) Ket for 1.

a member of an indigenous people of central Siberia, living in widely dispersed communities on tributaries of the Yenisei River, between 60° and 67° N latitude.

the Yeniseian language of the Ket, related only to several now extinct languages of the upper Yenisei.

Origin of Ket

< Russian < Ket: Ket, man, human being

Also called Yenisei Ostyak.

Definition for ket (2 of 2)

ket-

variant of keto- before a vowel: ketene.

Examples from the Web for ket

Lasket, las′ket, n. a loop of line at the foot of a sail, to which to fasten an extra sail.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)|Various
Ket took what seemed to him the only possible course to avert the doom of a ruined peasantry, and failed.
The Rise of the Democracy|Joseph Clayton
So Logary arose and said, "Ket shall never carve the boar for all of us."
The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland|T. W. Rolleston
Relations between Ket and the Norwich authorities soon became strained to breaking point.
The Rise of the Democracy|Joseph Clayton

One day thereafter Ket made a foray on the men of Ross, and carried away a spoil of cattle.
The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland|T. W. Rolleston