different between sheltery vs shelter
sheltery
English
Etymology
shelter +? -y
Adjective
sheltery (comparative more sheltery, superlative most sheltery)
- Affording shelter.
- 1866, Gilbert White
- They spend their winters under the warm and sheltery shores of Gibraltar and Barbary.
- 1866, Gilbert White
sheltery From the web:
shelter
English
Etymology
From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English s?ildtruma, s?yldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from s?yld, s?ield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???lt?/
- (US) IPA(key): /???lt?/
- Rhymes: -?lt?(r)
Noun
shelter (plural shelters)
- A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
- An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shelter (third-person singular simple present shelters, present participle sheltering, simple past and past participle sheltered)
- (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
- 1663, John Dryden, Epistle to Dr. Charleton
- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
- 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
- You have no convents […] in which such persons may be received and sheltered.
- 1663, John Dryden, Epistle to Dr. Charleton
- (intransitive) To take cover.
- During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
Translations
Anagrams
- Ehlerts, Hertels, Shetler, helters, three Ls
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