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Definition of Sheltery
1. a. Affording shelter.
Definition of Sheltery
1. Adjective. Affording shelter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sheltery
1. giving shelter [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheltery
Literary usage of Sheltery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"... have yet an airy and sprightly character, and with their fields of brighter
verdure and sheltery groves, may be fairly allowed to add to, ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... where rabid monsters breed; Where serpents, pamper'd on her venom, feed, No
sheltery trees invite the Wanderer's eye, No fruits, no grain, no gums, ..."
3. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1906)
"... he will have the credit of first discovering that they spend their winters
under the warm and sheltery shores of Gibraltar and Barbary. ..."
4. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: In the County of Southampton by Gilbert White, Edward Turner Bennett, James Edmund Harting (1891)
"... he will have the credit of first discovering that they spend their winters
under the warm and sheltery shores of Gibraltar and Barbary.2 It seems highly ..."
5. The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape: Giving a Complete History of by Willard W. Glazier (1869)
"(We were without shelterY Fragments of tents \ were still standing, but afforded
no protection from the sun or storm, for the prisoners who were confined ..."
6. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1864)
"This of course is accompanied by smoking, and his favourite resort is a sheltery,
grassy nook in an old rath, or a sunny spot in the ruins of an old castle. ..."
7. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"... unbroken and unprotected by artificial precautions ; hence, if its culture in
the open air be attempted at all, a sheltery site must be allotted it, ..."
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