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

To us, alone and in peril, this diary assumed an epochal importance entirely out of kelter with its face value.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville

We accepted the latter proposition, as we were in no travelling kelter, and had no taste for performances on the tight rope.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

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

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth

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