Definition of "helter" []

• Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century spelling of halter (a rope, cord, or similar that fastens around the neck). (noun)

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• "He blamed Skinner for his etymology for helter-skelter from the Anglo-Saxon words for the darkness of hell: "Hell, says he, being a place of confusion.""
• "Now that the Republicans are out of power shouldn't this blog and its posters be flinging the F word helter skelter?"
• "It was here that Charles Manson and members of his cult family were hiding out after the so - called helter-skelter murders that claimed at least seven lives and terrified the country in 1969."