sheltery
English
Etymology
shelter + -y
Adjective
sheltery (comparative more sheltery, superlative most sheltery)
- Affording shelter.
- 1866, Gilbert White
- They spend their winters under the warm and sheltery shores of Gibraltar and Barbary.
- 1866, Gilbert White
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sheltery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)