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. }}