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• a variation of shelty.

sheltie

British  

/ ˈʃɛltɪ /

noun

1. another name for Shetland pony Shetland sheepdog

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Etymology

Origin of sheltie

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

Example Sentences

She was able to ship Emmitt, her 10-year-old sheltie, a “fearless, four-legged family member,” to relatives in the states.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

Later, he got a summer job at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he helped take care of sea lions, and on weekends, he went on long hikes with his sheltie.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014

The two sheltie pups in the front window seemed agitated.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

Bobs had always belonged to Norah, He had been given to her as a foal, when Norah used to ride a round little black sheltie, as easy to fall off as to mount.

From A Little Bush Maid by Bruce, Mary Grant

But my Galloway sheltie, being nimble on its feet, took me bravely over the moss-hags, carrying me lightly and willingly as if I had been hare-coursing on the green holms of the Ken.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)