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kelpy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun kelpy has 1 sense
- kelpy(n = noun.person) kelpie - (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders; Array is a kind of evil spirit
CIDE DICTIONARY
kelpy, n. [Cf. Gael. cailpeach, calpach, colpach, a heifer, steer, colt, colpa a cow or horse.].
An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
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