Crossword clues for celt
celt
- Welshman, e.g
- NBA player
- Irish ancestor
- Early Brit
- Briton of old
- Boston hoopster, for short
- TD Garden NBAer
- Early Irishman
- British invader of old
- Boston player, briefly
- Worshipper of the sun god Beal
- Welshman or Gael
- Welsh or Breton
- Prehistoric ax
- Pre-Roman European
- NBAer, in headlines
- Early settler of England
- Early invader of England
- Boston hoopster, informally
- Boston basketball player, for short
- Bird was one, briefly
- Beantown player
- Beantown hoopster, for short
- TD Banknorth Garden cager
- Speaker of Welsh or Breton
- Roman's foe in the Gallic Wars
- Pro for whom TD Garden is home
- Primitive chisel
- Player under Auerbach, familiarly
- One may hail from Wales
- Old-school Briton
- Old English inhabitant?
- Old Briton
- Old Brit
- NBA cager Paul Pierce, briefly
- Larry Bird or Kevin McHale, briefly
- Knick or Sixer rival
- Iron Age European
- Irishman or Welshman
- Irishman or Scotsman
- Irish speaker, say
- Irish person, e.g
- Irish forebear
- Ireland native
- Hoopster with a shamrock logo, briefly
- Hebrides resident
- Gaul or Briton
- Gael, e.g
- Gael or Druid
- FleetCenter NBAer
- FleetCenter cager, for short
- European invader of old
- Eire man
- Early European
- Dublin native, e.g
- Cousy or Bird, for short
- Cornishman or Welshman
- Cornish speaker
- Cave dweller's stone axe
- Bygone Brit
- British invader of yore
- Britannic forebear
- Brit's ancestor
- Breton or Welsh
- Boston NBA player, for short
- Boston hoopster, cut
- Boston hooper, for short
- Boston B-baller
- Bob Cousy, for most of his career
- Bird, for all the '80s
- Beantown hoopster
- Beantown basketballer
- Beantown athlete
- Druid, e.g.
- Boston athlete, briefly
- Cornishman or Welshman, e.g
- Stonehenge builder
- Scot or Breton, e.g.
- Breton, for one
- Scot, for one
- Welshman or Scot
- Northwest European
- Boston player, for short
- Boston player, informally
- FleetCenter player, for short
- Gael, for one
- Irishman, e.g.
- Irishman or Welshman, e.g
- Saxon foe
- Bygone Briton
- Knick rival
- Druid, for one
- Boston cager, informally
- Irish native
- Bird, e.g., once
- Boston cager, briefly
- Invader of Rome in 390 B.C.
- Gaelic speaker
- European of the Iron Age
- Hibernian, for one
- Bill Russell or Larry Bird, briefly
- Sixer rival
- Influence for Enya, historically
- TD Garden athlete, informally
- A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times
- Ancient Briton
- Early Scot
- Welshman or Irishwoman, e.g
- Briton or Breton
- Breton, e.g.
- Tara native
- Welshman or Irishman
- Highland Scot, for one
- Breton or Briton
- Breton or Welshman
- Pict rival
- Prehistoric implement
- Early Briton
- Native of Tara
- Scot, for example
- Native of Cardiff
- Gael or Breton, e.g
- Welshman, for one
- Boston cager, for short
- Prehistoric tool
- Breton or Gael
- Person from Tara
- A Druid, for one
- Irishman, e.g
- Ancient Gaul
- Ancient tool
- Welshman, e.g.
- Prehistoric stone implement
- Church officer, maybe Manx speaker
- Invader of Rome in 390 B.C
- Boston basketballer, for short
- Ancient British Isles settler
- Stone Age tool
- Druid, e.g
- Highlander, e.g
- Irish or Welsh ancestor
- Manxman, e.g
- Druid, for example
- Breton, e.g
- Boston NBAer, briefly
- Boston hoopster, briefly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celt \Celt\, n. [LL. celts a chisel.] (Arch[ae]ol.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
Celt \Celt\ (s[e^]lt; k[e^]lt), n. [L. Celtae, Gr. Keltoi`, Ke`ltai, pl.: cf. W. Celtiad one that dwells in a covert, an inhabitant of the wood, a Celt, fr. celt covert, shelter, celu to hide.] One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France. [Written also Kelt. The letter C was pronounced hard in Celtic languages.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Kelt, c.1600, from Latin Celta, singular of Celtae, from Greek Keltoi, Herodotus' word for the Gauls (who also were called Galatai). Used by the Romans of continental Gauls but apparently not of the British Celtic tribes. Originally in English in reference to ancient peoples; extention to their modern descendants is from mid-19c., from French usage.
"stone chisel," 1715, from a Latin ghost word (apparently a misprint of certe) in Job xix:24 in Vulgate: "stylo ferreo, et plumbi lamina, vel celte sculpantur in silice;" translated, probably correctly, in KJV as, "That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever." But assumed by others to be a genuine carving tool, partly because it was in the Bible, and thereafter adapted by archaeologists as a name for a class of prehistoric implements.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called ''Celtae'' by the Romans. 2 A member of one of the (modern, Celtic) peoples who speak Celtic languages. (qualifier: Compare ''Gael''.)
Wikipedia
In archaeology, a celt is a long, thin, prehistoric, stone or bronze tool similar to an adze, a hoe or axe-like tool.
The Celts were Iron Age inhabitants of Europe, who spoke Celtic languages and shared other cultural features.
National cultures:
- Gaelic culture
- Culture of Ireland
- Culture of Scotland
- Culture of the Isle of Man
- Culture of Wales
- Culture of Cornwall
- Culture of Brittany
Constrained Energy Lapped Transform (CELT) is an open, royalty-free lossy audio compression format and a free software codec with especially low algorithmic delay for use in low-latency audio communication. The algorithms are openly documented and may be used free of software patent restrictions. Development of the format was maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation (as part of the Ogg codec family) and later coordinated by the Opus working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
CELT was meant to bridge the gap between Vorbis and Speex for applications where both high quality audio and low delay are desired. It is suitable for both speech and music. It borrows ideas from the CELP algorithm, but avoids some of its limitations by operating in the frequency domain exclusively.
The original stand-alone CELT has been merged into Opus. Therefore, CELT as stand-alone format is now abandoned and obsolete. Development is going on only for its hybridised form as a layer of Opus, integrated with SILK. This article covers the historic, stand-alone format, for the integrated form and its evolution since the integration into Opus see the article on Opus.
Usage examples of "celt".
Those Celtic tribes occupying modern Brittany were much smaller and darker than other Celts, as were many Aquitanian tribes.
Britannia had been conquered by foot-slogging legionaries, heavy infantry that crushed every attack the frantic Celts could throw at them.
His head was still sticky with the beer that the buffoon had poured on it, and we all knew Clodius was angry at the Celts for marring his throat.
If the Celts were going to resist, it would surely be here, at the boundary of their holiest trees.
As the Romans closed, someone pulled from behind, and the priest abruptly vanished, even as more Celts emerged from the trees.
The other Celts had set themselves ready, and the Romans ran into a volley.
On and on they cantered, even the Celts beginning to slump, and just as Valeria felt so dizzy, sick, and weak with hunger that she feared she might tumble from her saddle, they finally paused for evening.
The place was a sty, and not one of these Celts had the breeding to even notice.
A great iron kettle was filled with water and warmed by heated stones for the company to wash there before eating, the Celts surprising her with their fastidiousness.
Most of these Celts were related, and all had a role to play in their small society: the storyteller, the jokester, the warrior, the mother hen, the tippler, the magician, the singer, the cook.
There were a few drunk and satiated Celts passed out in the banquet hall, but none stirred when she emerged.
The Celts would start a hundred projects with the enthusiasm of children and abandon them just as swiftly to go riding, wrestle in mock fights, shoot arrows, or make love, their passion audible from the round walls of their houses.
Only in their animals did the Celts expect discipline, the dogs kept in order with the kick of a boot and the horses ridden so constantly and hard that they melded through thigh and fist and heel into the mind of their riders.
But the chase after victory, when the Celts fled, would be like trying to catch the wind.
And somehow the boar heard the human thoughts as the Celts heard his, both taking the measure of the other.