shelty

or shel·tie

[ shel-tee ]

noun

, Informal.

, plural shel·ties.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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