keld

See also: Keld

English

Adjective

keld (not comparable)

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

     […] 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 […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “keld”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Delk