After collecting them each day from the chicken coop, she put the eggs in her skelter until she needed them.
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Skelter
Synonyms for "skelter"
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German
2 entries- eilen verb (hurry, scurry)
- hasten verb (hurry, scurry)
Sample sentences
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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.
Source: wiktionary
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