skelter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.
    — After collecting them each day from the chicken coop, she put the eggs in her skelter until she needed them.
动词 v.
  1. To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry. colloquial
    — 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.

词形变化

skelters plural skelters present,singular,third-person skeltering participle,present skeltered participle,past skeltered past

词源

词源 1
Compare helter-skelter.
词源 2
Compare helter-skelter.
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