Definitions for kelp

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IPA: /kɛlp/

Kelp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in kelp (eklp).

Definitions for kelp

noun

1. any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes.
2. a bed or mass of such seaweeds.
3. the ash of these seaweeds.

verb (used without object)

1. to burn these seaweeds for their ash.

Origin of kelp

1350-1400; apparently dialectal variant of Middle English culp

Examples for kelp

“Tangled round some kelp before,” she told herself disappointedly.

If basalt be used, the proportion of kelp may be diminished.

We were "caught" and floundered about in the kelp while the water surged around us.

A great old cod, red with iodine from the kelp, gave her a thrill.

Then, too, a big bed of the kelp is a great break to the sea.

A ton of kelp is obtained from 20 to 22 tons of wet sea-weed.

The others, looking off toward the kelp, then see more of the birds.

Before she could draw him in he had fouled the line among the kelp.

It is olive-green, thus simulating in color the kelp among which it lives.

kelp, or sea-weed, is used with advantage where it can be obtained.