Usage examples for kelpie:

• " There, Kelpie lie there," he continued, returning to the hearth, and, addressing a small, white, shaggy dog, which, with a human look in its round, pink eyes, obeyed the voice it knew and loved, and crouched down in the corner at a safe distance from the young lady, whom it seemed instinctively to know as an enemy. "Bad Hugh" – Mary Jane Holmes

• After tea he took an opportunity of saying to Marjorie, 'Now, Marjorie, remember that we've got to make the Kelpie late. "The Adventure League" – Hilda T. Skae

• It's all afloat,- hair- brushes out on voyages of discovery, and a horrid little kelpie sculling round on a hat- box!" "We Girls: A Home Story" – Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney