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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
skelter .
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Examples
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Joey heltered and skeltered pell-mell up the street.
Mescaline Blues 2010
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It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me, turned around and jumped into the stream.
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About the room was the usual clutter of all manner of things in the usual unarranged, "unwomaned" Zone way, which the negro janitor feels it neither his duty nor privilege to bring to order; while on and about my cot and bureau were helter-skeltered the sundry possessions of an absent employee, who had left for his six-weeks 'vacation without hanging up his shirt -- after the fashion of "Zoners."
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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The magazines were helter-skeltered upon the floor and table, where he had tossed each one after turning the leaves.
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The magazines were helter-skeltered upon the floor and table, where he had tossed each one after turning the leaves.
The Pit Frank Norris 1886
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The schooner was a wilderness of confusion, with the sails covering, apparently, nine-tenths of the decks, the remaining tenth encumbered by spars, cordage, tangled rigging, chains, cables and the like, all helter-skeltered together in such a haze of entanglements that my heart misgave me as I looked on it.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me, turned around and jumped into the stream.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Turbine Hall, in which, in the annual Unilever Series of installations, they have been whispered to and disoriented, sun-worshipped and helter-skeltered.
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Turbine Hall, in which, in the annual Unilever Series of installations, they have been whispered to and disoriented, sun-worshipped and helter-skeltered.
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Japanese, and helter-skeltered; Fuji perches on the floating hat, while at his right,
CounterPunch 2009
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