dial. [prob. rustic pronunciation of TILTURE: cf. pictur, picter for picture.] Proper condition; order: perh. orig. of cultivated land, and afterwards of things generally.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 75. The single shove or heave of the spring … puts the Watch thus fadg’d together and in tilter into motions round, right on,… forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards, and otherwayes.
a. 1880. Kentish Dial., This thurruck is out o’ tilter all the way along.
1887. Kent Gloss., s.v., He’s left that farm purty much out o’ tilter, I can tell ye.
