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‖ kilta|ˈkɪltə| Also kilter. [Origin unknown.] In India, a kind of wicker basket. Also attrib. = made of wicker.
1876C. F. G. Cumming From Hebrides to Himalayas II. v. 134 Our provisions were packed..in long native baskets, called kilters. 1896S. J. Stone In & beyond Himalayas 39 The provisions and cooking apparatus were carried in kiltas (wicker baskets covered with leather). 1901Kipling Kim xiii. 338 He skipped nimbly from one kilta to the next, making pretence to adjust each conical basket. 1927Blackw. Mag. Mar. 312/1 A kilta carrying-chair, carried on the back of one man. |