celt

Meaning

Noun

A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.

Origin

From Latin celtis ("chisel"), very probably a ghost word originating from a copyist's error in the Vulgate Bible, but taken as genuine and subsequently used in Medieval Latin.

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