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Skelder vs Skelter - What's the difference?

skelder | skelter |

As verbs the difference between skelder and skelter

is that skelder is to deceive; to cheat; to trick while skelter is to run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.

As a noun skelder

is (obsolete) a vagrant; a cheat.

skelder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A vagrant; a cheat.
    • (Ben Jonson)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)

    skelter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.
  • * Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago
    • It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village