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English
Etymology
From en- + shelter.
Verb
enshelter (third-person singular simple present enshelters, present participle ensheltering, simple past and past participle ensheltered)
- (obsolete) To shelter.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :If that the Turkish Fleete
Be not enshelter'd, and embay'd, they are drown'd
References
“enshelter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.