A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            An ancient stone blade used as a tool, usually hafted, e.g. an adze or a chisel.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a tool, that is, it is meant to 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                                                     
                        
                        
                            a small axe-like type of stone implement usually held in the hand used for working wooden materials
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            (3) -- stone sculptor's chisel (Oxford Dict.)
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A thin, ungroved axe with a sharp edge used for cutting or chopping. Probably hafted into a wooden handle.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            An ungrooved stone ax. Diagram of a Celt. Illustration by Duleepa Wijayawardhana based on original by Ralph Pastore.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Celt (pron. //) is an archaeological term formally used to describe long thin prehistoric stone or bronze adzes and other axe-like tools and hoes. Its use came about from a misreading of Job 19:24 in the Sixto-Clementine edition of the Latin Vulgate Bible where the certe in Stylo ferreo, et plumbi lamina, vel certe sculpantur in silice was read as celte. A 'Celte' was wrongly assumed to be a type of ancient chisel, when in fact it was a misspelling of the word certe "indeed."