Skelter
noun, verb, slang ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples"After collecting them each day from the chicken coop, she put the eggs in her skelter until she needed them."
Etymology
Compare helter-skelter.
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