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celt en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /sɛlt/

Etymology

From Latin celtis (“chisel”), very probably a ghost word originating from a copyist's error in the Vulgate Bible, but taken as genuine and subsequently used in Medieval Latin.

Meanings

1. A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.
   • The later division of the Bronze age is characterised by the appearance of swords, spears, palstaves, and socketed celts. 1880, William Boyd Dawkins, Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period:

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