different between kelp vs keld

English

Etymology

14th c., from Middle English culp, culpe, kilp, but of unknown ultimate origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: k?lp, IPA^(key): /k?lp/
• Rhymes: -?lp

Noun

kelp (countable and uncountable, plural kelps)

1. Any of several large brown seaweeds (order Laminariales).
2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

Hyponyms

• kombu

Meronyms

• stipe

Derived terms

• kelp crab
• kelp salmon

Translations

Verb

kelp (third-person singular simple present kelps, present participle kelping, simple past and past participle kelped)

1. (intransitive) To gather kelp.
   • 2018, John Walter Sutherland, Resurrection Road (page 94)

     Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.

Derived terms

• kelper

References

• “kelp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN
• Skeat, Walter William (1993): The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

Spanish

Noun

kelp m (plural kelps)

1. Alternative form of quelpo

English

Adjective

keld (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Having a kell or covering; webbed.
   • 1630, Michael Drayton, “Noahs Floud” in The Muses Elizium Lately Discouered, p. 98[1]:

     […] the Otter then that keepes / In the wild Riuers, in their Bancks and Sleeps, / And seeds on Fish, which vnder water still, / He with his keld seet, and keene teeth doth kill; / The other two into the Arke doth follow, / Though his ill shape doth cause him but to wallow […]

Anagrams

• Delk