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Kelter2, kilter. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Kelter2, kilter [Etym. obscure. Widely diffused in Eng. dial. from Northumb. and Cumb. to Cornwall, and occasional in literature. More frequent in U. S. (in form kilter).] Good condition, order; state of health or spirits. Used in the phrases out of kelter, in (good, high) kelter, to get into kelter.

1   α.  1643.  R. Williams, Key Lang. Amer., 177. Their Gunnes they … often sell many a score to the English, when they are a little out of frame or Kelter.

2 1674.  Ray, S. & E. Country Words, 69. Kelter or Kilter, Frame, order.

3 a. 1677.  Barrow, Serm., vi. Wks. 1716, I. 50. If the organs of Prayer are out of kelter, or out of tune, how can we pray?

4 1722.  in Connect. Col. Rec. (1872), VI. 335. Mending, cleansing and keeping in good kelter the firelocks left with his Honour.

5 1828.  Scott, Jrnl., 20 May. The rest are in high kelter.

6 1875.  Contemp. Rev., XXV. 262. Some part of her [Dresden] internal economy is chronically out of kelter.

7   β.  a. 1657.  Bradford, Plymouth Plant. (1856), 235. Nether durst they scarce handle a gune … ye very sight of one (though out of kilter) was a terrour unto them.

8 1681.  in New Eng. Mag. (1898), June, 450/1. The seats some burned and others out of kilter.

9 1862.  Lowell, Lett., I. 359. I must rest awhile. My brain is out of kilter.

10 1883.  J. Hawthorne, Dust, I. 16. There’s something awkward here…. A joint out of kilter perhaps.

11 1893.  Stevenson, Let. C. Baxter, 19 July, in Lett. Fam., etc. II. 300. I … am miserably out of heart and out of kilter.

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