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

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

Fiscal--Something has been out of kelter at Washington these two years with regard to the rigid application of appropriations, at least in the Indian Department.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

We accepted the latter proposition, as we were in no travelling kelter, and had no taste for performances on the tight rope.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

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)

"I've been out o' kelter nearly ten years."

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth