skelter
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skelter
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Compare helter-skelter.
noun skelters
- A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner. After collecting them each day from the chicken coop, she put the eggs in her skelter until she needed them.
verb skelters · skeltering · skeltered
- To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry. It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me,
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Talk about this word "skelter." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/skelter. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. skelter. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/skelter "skelter." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/skelter.
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@misc{skelter_2026,
title = {skelter},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/skelter},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
