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skelters

skelters is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 skelters

What is skelters the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Skelters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skelter.

Words near skelters in the dictionary

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

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