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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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"Shelter" Quotes from Famous Books

... been well; but the Attendant whom my infirmity,' he touched his ears and shook his head, 'renders almost indispensable, not having arrived, I fear there must be some mistake. The bad night which made the shelter of your comfortable cart (may I never have a worse!) so acceptable, is still as bad as ever. Would you, in your kindness, suffer me to ...

— The Cricket on the Hearth • Charles Dickens

... (1908), I secured a place near San Diego, where I had shelter and food during the winters and small wages during the active seasons in return for doing the chores ...

— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

... young and might take no harm from it. The Colonel, accordingly, groped his way through the dark and rain over the mile and a half of road or cross-road intervening between Newport and the Castle. His object was to see the commandant, Captain Bowerman. After some considerable time, spent under the shelter of the gateway, he was admitted and did see Captain Bowerman, but only to find him sitting sulkily with about a dozen strange officers, who were evidently his masters for the moment, and prevented his being in the least ...

— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

... when the tramp had arrived at the water-hole. He crept behind a sharp dip in the hummocks. The crest of his hiding-place was covered with brush. It was a natural rifle-pit affording him seclusion and shelter. ...

— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... at once seemed to her perfectly idiotic, and, worse still, intrusive and impertinent. What possible excuse was she going to give for it, in the face of her behaviour to him that afternoon on the moorland? Merely to have asked for shelter on account of the heat, appeared to her now as the flimsiest of excuses, and would appear to him as an excuse simply to pry upon him, to see his mode of living. He had not returned to the parlour. Doubtless his absence was a silent rebuke to her. She had thrust ...

— Antony Gray,--Gardener • Leslie Moore

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