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kelpie

/kel-pee/US // ˈkɛl pi //UK // (ˈkɛlpɪ) //

海带,海猫,海带鱼,海带犬

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a water spirit, usually having the form of a horse, reputed to cause drownings or to warn those in danger of drowning.

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Examples

  • It is said; and you know of old that the Kelpie sings or plays a strange tune to wile seamen to their death.

  • A like fate nearly befell the writer when fishing alone one day in a gloomy, forsaken, kelpie-haunted Border hill loch.

  • For the first hour and a half of that memorable sail, the Kelpie ran lightly before a delicate breeze.

  • And now do I believe that they are still at play in the crystal halls of the water kelpie, whence no man can rescue them.

  • Had Ghaoth slain the kelpie, and was he now perishing there with his teeth fixed in the neck of the Sea-Woman?