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skelter

English

Etymology

Compare helter-skelter.

Noun

skelter (plural skelters)

  1. A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, with "away" or "off") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago
      It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village []

Translations

Anagrams

  • Kestler, kelters, kestrel

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svelter

English

Adjective

svelter

  1. comparative form of svelte: more svelte

Anagrams

  • Leverts, servlet

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