Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unsteady; crank: noting a vessel.

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

  • adjective rare Liable to roll over; crank.

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  • adjective Liable to roll over.

Etymologies

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Compare walter to roll.

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Examples

  • "walty" -- inclined to roll -- that the captain set off with misgiving, and as she moved away the crew heard this solemn and disheartening invocation from a clergyman on the wharf: -- "Lord, if it be thy pleasure to bury these, our friends, in the bottom of the sea, take them; they are thine: save them."

    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land 1879

  • Yet more walty w@nkers pulling us all down to their level.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • I told you it was a walty load of bo Airborne, you are being a tool.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Why don't you print out the photographs from the link you posted, and when you tip up at Basic tell the training corporals that you found some "walty cu nts" on the internet, before showing them the photos.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Why don't you print out the photographs from the link you posted, and when you tip up at Basic tell the training corporals that you found some "walty cu nts" on the internet, before showing them the photos.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • First, we have a handfull of trolls scribbling all over getting a walty medal

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Is he still punting that walty airsoft rifle of his or is he hoping we've forgotten about him?

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Leads me to believe that some walty guin who aspires to be a clerk/stacker/chef who has been told to go home and wait for the call.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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  • Liable to roll over, as a walty ship.

    Some mornings I feel quite walty.

    February 15, 2008