Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affording shelter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Affording shelter.
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- adjective Affording
shelter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or if a man is alone, he'll lay down on the sheltery side of a wall and sleep there.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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Father Maguire, previous to his receiving holy orders, had been a schoolmaster, and exercised his functions on that capacity in holes and corners; sometimes on the sheltery or sunny side of a hedge, as the case might be, and on other occasions when and where he could.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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"Now, mistress," said he, "I'll be earlier at my work to-morrow if I sleep comfortably on the sheltery side of a pile of dry peat on dry grass, and not be coming here and going back.
Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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"Now, mistress," said he, "I'll be earlier at my work tomorrow if I sleep comfortably on the sheltery side of a pile of dry peat on dry grass, and not be coming here and going back.
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Various 1865
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