skelter

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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.
    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)

  1. (colloquial, with "away" or "off") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.

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Dutch

Etymology

From English skelter.

Een skelter

Noun

skelter m (plural skelters, diminutive skeltertje n)

  1. A pedal car, a quadricycle (a go-kart-like toy car powered by pedals)
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