enshelter

English

Etymology

en- +‎ shelter

Verb

enshelter (third-person singular simple present enshelters, present participle ensheltering, simple past and past participle ensheltered)

1. (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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     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.