kelter
English
Noun
kelter (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of kilter meaning order or balance
- 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
- Fiscal--Something has been out of kelter at Washington these two years with regard to the rigid application of appropriations, at least in the Indian Department.
- 1867, William Henry Smyth, The Sailor's Word-Book:
- --All over, resemblance to a particular object, as a ship in bad kelter: "she's a privateer all over."
- 1910, Alexander Irvine, From the Bottom Up:
- It was intimated to me that such "frivolousness" was out of kelter with the profession of a Christian.
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- In a card game, a hand of cards which is useless; a dead man's hand