shelty

American  

[shel-tee] / ˈʃɛl ti /

Or sheltie

noun

Informal.

shelties plural

1. Shetland pony.

2. Shetland sheepdog.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• shelties
  plural

Etymology

Origin of shelty

1640–50; shelt (< Old Norse hjaltr “native of Shetland”) + -y ²

Example Sentences

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shelty shelties

When the deed was done the shelty was brought back to its tether as mysteriously as it had been taken away.

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

I can carry a ship through any sea a ship can live in; I could not drive a Shetland shelty down an empty street.

From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

The sons were about to cross a voe or ferry; but one was to take his shelty, while the rest were to go by the boat.

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

But for these dozen or twenty years bypast we have preferred a narrow beat, snugly seated on a shelty, and pad the hoof on the hill no more.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

But at this moment Surefoot is stretched more like a stone than a shelty in the land of Nod.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Yet here he is, three decades later, sipping micheladas in Santa Monica while his pet shelties frolic in a grove of lemon trees.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2020

Others were driven on to the prairie, and turning their backs to the storm, stood still or moved sideways, with cowering heads, their manes and tails floating wildly, like those of Highland shelties.

From The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America by Friston, D. H.

I must always except that petty theft of feeding their shelties and asses on the farmer’s grass and corn, which they will do, whether at home or abroad.

From A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by Hoyland, John

Many a pleasant adventure they had as they rode together on their sure-footed little "shelties," or climbed the crags and rocks to look down upon the isles, "like so many stars reflected from the sky."

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated by Dodge, Mary Mapes

Sandy McNab, the packman, was found on the point of starting, with his two half-starved shelties, scarcely the size of ordinary donkeys, but with wonderful strength of limb and power of endurance.

From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by Hoggans, T.