Kelpie : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Kelpie	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Kelpie
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kelpie n (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders Synonym(s): kelpy, kelpie an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kelpie \Kel"pie\, Kelpy \Kel"py\, n.; pl. {Kelpies}. [Cf. Gael. cailpeach, calpach, colpach, a heifer, steer, colt, colpa a cow or horse.] (Scotch Myth.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. --Jamieson.