Skelter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Skelter is a noun meaning A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.
Meaning
A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.
More Meanings
- (colloquial, with "away" or "off") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.
Example Sentences
After collecting them each day from the chicken coop, she put the eggs in her skelter until she needed them.
It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me, turned around and jumped into the stream.
Word Forms
- skelters
- skeltering
- skeltered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include helter, belter, hopper, stacker, coaster, trayline.
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