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kelpie

kelpie

English

Noun

kelpie (plural kelpies)

  1. (Celtic folklore) A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
  2. An Australian breed of sheepdog.
    • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador 2014, p. 4:
      Gulls scatter before the blur of my insane kelpie.

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