Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See kilter.
  • Made of kelt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Colloq., chiefly British spelling Regular order or proper condition.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of kilter. meaning order or balance

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun in working order

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  • I read once in a book I can't remember, that someone was "keltered into the sea." Has anyone run into this?

    December 14, 2009

  • Hill7, I believe this is what you want: the online Dictionary of Scots Language (one of my favorite online dictionaries) has an entry for "kilter" which defines it as "to tilt up" and "to tumble headlong, to go head over heels, to fall," among other definitions.

    December 15, 2009