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noun

Shelter n.

That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen. "The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade."

One who protects; a guardian; a defender. "Thou (God) hast been a shelter for me."

The state of being covered and protected; protection; security. "Who into shelter takes their tender bloom."

Shelter tent,a small tent made of pieces of cotton duck arranged to button together. In field service the soldiers carry the pieces.

Synonyms: Asylum; refuge; retreat; covert; sanctuary; protection; defense; security.

verb

Shelter v. t. (past & past part. sheltered; pres. part. sheltering)

To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect. "Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head." "You have no convents... in which such persons may be received and sheltered."

To screen or cover from notice; to disguise. "In vain I strove to cheek my growing flame, Or shelter passion under friendship's name."

To betake to cover, or to a safe place; used reflexively. "They sheltered themselves under a rock."

Shelter v. i. To take shelter. "There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool."

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Etymology of 'Shelter'

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"Shelter" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rubiana Lagoon district of the Solomon Islands had a somewhat similar projection, though in them the front wall of the house, with its little door-opening, was carried round below the outer edge of the hood, which thus formed part of the roof of the interior, instead of being merely a shelter over the outside platform, as is the case ...

— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson

... some excitement; for, independently of the cause of their going to London, it was Anne's first visit there. A great thunderstorm overtook them on their way that summer evening to the station; but they had no time to seek shelter. They only just caught the train at Keighley, arrived at Leeds, and were whirled up by the night ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... requesting a supply of firearms, that they might go back and fetch off their cattle. I gave them each a gun with suitable ammunition. We had not march'd many miles before it began to rain, and it continued raining all day; there were no habitations on the road to shelter us, till we arriv'd near night at the house of a German, where, and in his barn, we were all huddled together, as wet as water could make us. It was well we were not attack'd in our march, for our arms were of the most ordinary sort, ...

— Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin

... Surely she cannot hear us; the wind is too great. (Raising her voice again.) You cannot enter. If my daughter opens the door to you, it will be after violence to me. Now will you go—or, at least, make no further sign? You are welcome to the shelter of the veranda until the hurricane veers, when you can take refuge in ...

— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton

... with some earnestness, on my condition. I was a stranger, friendless and moneyless. I was unable to purchase food and shelter, and was wholly unused to the business of begging. Hunger was the only serious inconvenience to which I was immediately exposed. I had no objection to spend the night in the spot where I then sat. I had no ...

— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown

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