shelter
noun
something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
self-shelter
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a word derived from
shelter.
Example Sentences
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When hailstones have been falling, swarm on swarm, Or blasts the green field and the trees distressed, Oft have I seen it muffled up from harm, In close self-shelter, like a thing at rest.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
