"skelter" meaning in English

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          "text": "After collecting them each day from the chicken coop, she put the eggs in her skelter until she needed them.",
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        "A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner."
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        "(colloquial, with \"away\" or \"off\") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry."
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "hurry, scurry",
          "word": "eilen"
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          "sense": "hurry, scurry",
          "word": "hasten"
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      "sense": "hurry, scurry",
      "word": "eilen"
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