atilt
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
adv
At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
prep
Diagonally over or across.
Example Sentences
- "The child listened, her head atilt."
- "When I came to the river, I ached in sympathy with the shipping painfully atilt on the rock-like surface of the brine, which broke against the piers, and sprayed itself over them like showers of powdered quartz."
- "In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun."
- "1954, Allen Ginsberg, Journal entry in Gordon Ball (ed.), Journals, New York: Grove, 1977, p. 70, Pink bedroom lamp, shade atilt over Uncle Abe’s ancient clean radio,"
- "He wore his hat rakishly atilt."
- "Ale should not be drunk under five dayes old; new Ale is unwholsome, sowre Ale, and dead, and Ale which do stand atilt is most unwholesome."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English tilt English atilt From a- + tilt.