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Kelter vs Pelter - What's the difference?

kelter | pelter |

As nouns the difference between kelter and pelter

is that kelter is an alternative spelling of kilter meaning order or balance while pelter is one who pelts.

kelter

English

Noun

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  • meaning order or balance
  • * {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, title=Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1867, author=William Henry Smyth, title=The Sailor's Word-Book, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=--All over'', resemblance to a particular object, as a ship in bad kelter : "she's a privateer ''all over ." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Alexander Irvine, title=From the Bottom Up, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It was intimated to me that such "frivolousness" was out of kelter with the profession of a Christian. }}

    pelter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who pelts.
  • * 2008 , Outlook (volume 48, number 35, page 20)
    • Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several.
  • A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

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