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balter

balter verb: to tumble; dance clumsily.

Verb

balter (third-person singular simple present balters, present participle baltering, simple past and past participle baltered)

  1. (intransitive) To tumble; dance clumsily.
  2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To become tangled or matted.
  3. (transitive) To tread down in a clumsy manner.
  4. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To tangle; clot; mat (as in the hair).

Proper noun capitalized: Balter

Balter (plural Balters)

  1. A surname from German.

balter meaning in Tamil

balter in Tamil

திறனிலா நடனம்

Forms of balter

Verb
third-person singular presentbalters
present participlebaltering
past participlebaltered
pastbaltered
alternative formbaulter
alternative formbolter
alternative formbauter
Proper noun
pluralBalters

Origin of balter

From Middle English balteren, of North Germanic origin, related to Danish baltre, boltre (“to roll, tumble, gambol, romp”).

Borrowed from German Balter.

Questions about balter

What does balter mean?
Balter means to tumble; dance clumsily.
What is balter in Tamil?
Balter in Tamil is திறனிலா நடனம். See Balter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is balter?
Balter can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of balter?
The past tense of balter is baltered.

Words near balter in the dictionary

  1. Baltassar
  2. Baltazar
  3. Baltazars
  4. BaltCo
  5. baltei
  6. balter
  7. baltered
  8. baltering
  9. balters
  10. balteus
  11. Balthasar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: balter (page history and authors); Balter (page history and authors); Balter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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