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helter

n. (context northern England obsolete English) (alternative spelling of halter nodot=1 English) (gloss: rope, cord, or similar thing that fastens around the neck). (15th and 16th century)

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Giving the little girl a playful poke, he dashed down an arbored path, followed helter skelter by all the others.

She slid helter skelter down another roof, catching sight in that moment of a streak of dawn light between the hills, then over gables and chimney stacks and down, swooping, into a square where the birds were already tuning up for the day.