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

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

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

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

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)

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir