| 词汇 | kilter |
| 词源 | kilter [E17th] The word kilter, meaning ‘good condition or order’, emerges in English dialect use in the 17th century, and is recorded in areas from Northumberland to Cornwall and in the USA. Its origin is not known. It survives in mainstream language only in the phrase out of kilter, meaning ‘out of balance’. |
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