skelter
English
editEtymology
editCompare helter-skelter.
Noun
editskelter (plural 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
editskelter (third-person singular simple present skelters, present participle skeltering, simple past and past participle skeltered)
- (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 […]
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editNoun
editskelter m (plural skelters, diminutive skeltertje n)
- A pedal car, a quadricycle (a go-kart-like toy car powered by pedals)