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skeltered

skeltered is the simple past and past participle of skelter.

Meaning of skelter

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial) 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

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Questions about skeltered

What is skeltered the simple past and past participle of?
Skeltered is the simple past and past participle of skelter.

Words near skeltered in the dictionary

  1. skelpings
  2. skelps
  3. skels
  4. skelsies
  5. skelter
  6. skeltered
  7. skeltering
  8. skelters
  9. Skelton
  10. Skelton and Brotton
  11. Skeltonian

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