noun. A common prehistoric tool of stone or metal, shaped like a chisel or ax head.

noun. In archaeology, an implement or weapon widely used among primitive and uncivilized races, and having the general form of a chisel or an ax-blade.

noun. A member of one of the peoples speaking languages akin to those of Wales, Ireland, the Highlands of Scotland, and Brittany, and constituting a branch or principal division of the Indo-European family.

noun. One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.

noun. A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.

noun. a prehistoric chisel-bladed tool

noun. a member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times

"It was said that one Indian, working alone, felling the pine-tree by the primitive way of burning and scraping off the charred parts with a stone tool called a celt (for the Indians had no iron or steel axes), then cutting off the top in the same manner, then burning out part of the interior, then burning and scraping and shaping it without and within, could make one of these dugouts in three weeks."

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Kelt