skelter

English

Etymology

Compare helter-skelter.

Noun

skelter (plural skelters)

1. 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

skelter (third-person singular simple present skelters, present participle skeltering, simple past and past participle skeltered)

1. (colloquial, with "away" or "off") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago:

     It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village […]

Translations

hurry, scurry

• German: eilen (de), hasten (de)

Anagrams

• Terkels, kestrel, Kestler, Sterkel, kelters

Dutch

Etymology

From English skelter.

Een skelter

Noun

skelter m (plural skelters, diminutive skeltertje n)

1. a pedal car, a quadricycle (a go-kart-like toy car powered by pedals)