kelp

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English culp, culpe, of uncertain origin; possibly from Old English *colba, *colfa, from Proto-West Germanic *kolbō (“bulb, cob”), from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“round object, club”). Compare Middle High German kolbe (“clublike plant”), Old Norse kolfr (“bulb of a plant”).

Noun

kelp (countable and uncountable, plural kelps)

  1. Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).
    Synonym: oyster grass
    • 2021 June 26, “Why New England is going wild for wet weeds”, in The Economist‎, →ISSN:
      Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.
  2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.
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Descendants
  • → French: kelp
  • → German: Kelp
  • → Irish: ceilp
  • → Scottish Gaelic: ceilp
  • → Spanish: quelpo
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.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English kelpe, kylpe, from Old Norse kilpr (“the handle of a vessel, loop”). Related to Old Norse kelpa (“otter trap”).

Noun

kelp (plural kelps)

  1. (dialectal) A hook or crook by which a pot is hung over a fire.
  2. (obsolete) A sheath.

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English kelp.

Pronunciation

Noun

kelp m (plural kelps)

  1. kelp
    Synonyms: goémon, varech

Spanish

Noun

kelp m (plural kelps)

  1. Alternative form of quelpo
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