kilter








noun

  1. good condition; order: The engine was out of kilter.
  2. Poker. skeet2.

noun

  1. working order or alignment (esp in the phrases off kilter, out of kilter)
n.

in out of kilter (1620s) variant of English dialectal kelter (c.1600) “good condition, order,” of unknown origin.

see out of kilter.

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