skelter

English

Etymology

Compare helter-skelter.

Noun

skelter (plural skelters)

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

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

(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

hurry, scurry

German: eilen (de), hasten (de)

Anagrams

Kestler, Sterkel, kelters, kestrel