sheltie

/ ˈʃɛltɪ /

noun

Origin of sheltie¹

C17: probably from Orkney dialect sjalti, from Old Norse Hjalti Shetlander, from Hjaltland Shetland

One animal welfare worker even found a live sheltie in a tree.

"People might be walking about," I said to Angus when he lifted me from Sheltie's back.

We could get but one bridle here, which, according to the maxim detur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnson's sheltie.

There the o'erlaboured sheltie would be sold to pay the matriculation fees.

I had no bridle for my sheltie, but only a halter; and Joseph rode without a saddle.

I asked our guide, a lad of fourteen years of age, what was the average price of a sheltie.

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