sheltn.
/ʃɛlt/, U.S. /ʃɛlt/, Scottish English /ʃɛlt/ Scottish.
A Shetland pony.
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1774 Aberdeen Jrnl. 27 June 4/2 (advt.) There are Three Shalts, and several Year-olds of very fine Kinds.
1777 Ld. Fife Let. 1 May in Ld. Fife & his Factor (1925) iv. 103 I would wish my Horses, My black Shelt, the roan Poney and Smith..to be at Mar Lodge.
1817 J. Christie Instr. for Hunting 29 We on with our sholts, a jogging and budging.
1880 J. E. Watt Poet. Sketches 59 To wirk some orra beast, or drive a milk shilt.
1920 Glasgow Herald 21 Oct. 8 It was the custom of the priest to go about his pastoral duties on a favourite pony..; indeed, he and the ‘shelt’ were inseparable.
1951 Scots Mag. July 278 They have their work cut out for them, those sturdy shelts.
1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin xx. 199 Mettlesome black shelts they had been, high~stepping, jingling their bright harness.
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