shelty

Definitions

Examples

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

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

• 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.

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