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Webster 1913 Edition

Skelter

Skel′ter

,
Verb.
I.
[Cf.
Helter-skelter
.]
To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; – with away or off.
[Colloq.]
A. R. Wallace.

Definition 2024

skelter

skelter

English

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.
    • 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 […]

Etymology

Compare helter-skelter.

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