skelter
skelter noun: a gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.
Noun
skelter (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
skelter (third-person singular simple present skelters, present participle skeltering, simple past and past participle 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...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 102
Forms of skelter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | skelters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | skelters |
| present participle | skeltering |
| past participle | skeltered |
| past | skeltered |
Origin of skelter
Compare helter-skelter.
Phrases with skelter
Questions about skelter
- What does skelter mean?
- Skelter means a gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.
- What part of speech is skelter?
- Skelter can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of skelter?
- The plural of skelter is skelters.
Words near skelter in the dictionary
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