Shelter /(?)/

Shel·ter

Shelter

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.
— Pope.
One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
Thou [God] hast been a shelter for me.
— Ps. lxi. 3.
The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
Who into shelter takes their tender bloom.
— Young.

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

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Sheltered; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
— Dryden.

You have no convents . . . in which such persons may be received and sheltered.
— Southey.
To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
In vain I strove to cheek my growing flame, Or shelter passion under friendship's name.
— Prior.
To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
They sheltered themselves under a rock.
— Abp. Abbot.

v. i.

To take shelter.
There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool.
— Milton.