† keldern.
Obsolete. rare.
The womb.
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1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 33 The Sun wears Nidnight [sic], Day is Beetle-brow'd, And Lightning is in Keldar of a cloud.
a1652 R. Brome New Acad. ii. i. 29 in Five New Playes (1659) The unbegotten Hans that I mean to clap into thy Kelder.
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