kelp

Pronunciation: /kɛlp/

The English word “kelp” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (especially of order Laminariales).
The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.
A hook or crook by which a pot is hung over a fire.
A sheath.

verb

To gather kelp.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English *kelpe, culpe, *kilpe (Early Modern English kilpe), of unclear origin, though the attested forms point to Old English *cylp, possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kulpi, from Proto-Germanic *kulpiz (“lump, boll”, referencing the airsacks of species such as bladderwrack and knotweed), potentially a substrate term connected to Latin globus (“globe”) and Proto-Germanic…

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