shelty

Or shel·tie

[shel-tee]

noun

Informal.

plural

shelties 

1. Shetland pony.

2. Shetland sheepdog.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shelty¹

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

Example Sentences

From a Shelty with a scratch-pack in Surrey a generation since, to many a cavalry charge with bugle-clash and thundering tread on Old Dominion soil now twenty years ago, the daily life with that best of friends,—save always one,—the perfect saddle horse, brings many thoughts to mind.

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Shelty, Sheltie, shel′ti, n. a Shetland pony.

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Shetland pony, a small sturdy and shaggy horse, usually nine to ten hands high, a shelty; Shetland wool, a thin but strong undyed worsted, spun from the wool of the sheep in the Shetland Islands, much used for knitting fine shawls, &c.

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The only guest who had chalked out other sport for himself was the stanchest of anglers, Mr. Rose;—but he, too, was there on his shelty, armed with his salmon-rod and landing-net, and attended by his humorous squire Hinves, and Charlie Purdie, a brother of Tom, in those days the most celebrated fisherman of the district.

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If all this be impracticable, difficult, or impossible, get Dycer to buy me the smallest, roughest, most shelty, 'Princely' pony that can be had.

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