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Skelter

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    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
  1. 1
    To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry. colloquial

    "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, turned around and jumped into the stream."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Compare helter-skelter.

Etymology 2

Compare helter-skelter.

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