Examples
“That's right -- tip up the kelter, it will make my bones amends, [14]”
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
“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.”
“Long Jimmy," a big eater, asked him, "Shadrach, is the soup in good kelter?”
“Then the politicals are all out of kelter, one doesn't hardly know his own mind, and all are afraid of what is in another's.”
“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.”
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
“His antics are off kelter, but he is pretty universall y respected for his stance and his dedication and his passion, and most of us agree with dignified dying.”
“_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.”
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
“She was a beautiful ship, in what we call "high kelter;" she seemed a living body, conscious of her own superior power over her opponents, whose shot she despised, as they fell thick and fast about her, while she deliberately took up an admirable position for battle.”
““frivolousness” was out of kelter with the profession of a Christian.”
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grant_barrett 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. Dec 14, 2009
hill7 I read once in a book I can't remember, that someone was "keltered into the sea." Has anyone run into this? Dec 14, 2009