kelter
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Neville Buck
But I reckin I must a-been blinded, whut wid things bein' so out of kelter round the 'partmint.
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
"I've been out o' kelter nearly ten years."
From The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins
To freshen the paint-work; to put into the highest kelter.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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 Eden Phillpotts
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