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plural skelters
A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner. examples
third-person singular simple present skelters, present participle skeltering, simple past and past participle skeltered
(colloquial, with "away" or "off") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry. quotations examples
It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village […]
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago