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Kept vs Kelt - What's the difference?

kept | kelt |

As a verb kept

is (keep).

As a noun kelt is

a thin, recently spawned atlantic salmon or kelt can be or kelt can be (scotland) cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.

kept

English

Verb

(head)
  • (keep)

    • Derived terms

    * kept man * kept woman

    Statistics

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms

    kelt

    English

    (wikipedia kelt)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin, recently spawned Atlantic salmon.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Jamieson)

    Etymology 3

    Compare Icelandic (kult), quilt.

    Noun

  • (Scotland) Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.
    • (Jamieson)
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