Definition of "kelt" []

• A thin, recently spawned Atlantic salmon. (noun)

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• "The incidents that had to be deplored were what the salmon fisherman calls the kelt nuisance."
• "Now I know it was the Food Poison Diet that gave you that svelte-kelt look!"
• "The first landing was to get rid of a kelt; and in all, if I may anticipate, we had five of them -- a small fish of, say, 6 lb., and the rest between 12 lb. and 15 lb."