Meaning of kelpie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.

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Examples

“He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought he was a mule, between a Jew and an ape; some a wizard, some a kelpie, or a fairy, but most of all, that he was really and truly a Brownie.”

“There was no sound but the endless noise of forest and river, and the sleep-whimper of his kelpie.”

“Gulls scatter before the blur of my insane kelpie.”

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