Definitions for shelties

shelties shel·ty

Spelling: [shel-tee]
IPA: /ˈʃɛl ti/

Shelties is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in shelties (eehilsst).

Definitions for shelties

noun

  1. Shetland pony.
  2. Shetland sheepdog.

Origin of shelties

1640-50; shelt (Old Norse hjaltr native of Shetland) + -y2

Examples for shelties

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

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.

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

Word Value for shelties
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

Similar words for shelties
Word of the day