kelter

American  

[kel-ter] / ˈkɛl tər /

noun

Chiefly British Dialect.

1. kilter.

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kelter British  

/ ˈkɛltə /

noun

1. a variant of kilter

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Example Sentences

"I've been out o' kelter nearly ten years."

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth

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.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

But I reckin I must a-been blinded, whut wid things bein' so out of kelter round the 'partmint.

From J. Poindexter, Colored by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

An’ the things be in prime kelter, tu; an’ better than four hunderd pound of uncle’s money still left.”

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

The wheat's kernin' somethin' cruel fine—I awnly wish theer was more of it—an' the sheep an' cattle's in braave kelter likewise.

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden