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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Shetland pony.
  • noun A Shetland sheepdog.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See shelty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A Shetland pony.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of shelty.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably from Old Norse Hjalti, Shetlander, from Hjaltland, Shetland Islands.]

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