0 present participle of shelter
1 to protect yourself, or another person or thing, from bad weather, danger, or attack:
2 If you shelter income, you legally avoid paying taxes on it:
Their accountant suggested some novel ways of sheltering their retirement income.
Therefore, where there's snow that's sheltering the ice, with the turbulence doing the action from underneath, the water moving in circles and wears out the ice underneath that snowbank.
We have, at present, no indication whether this will occur before, or after, the sheltering effect has become dominant nor of the interplay between these two mechanisms.
Treasured and loving moments surface amid the anguish of forsaking and sheltering cherished others while dispelling-embracing mystery.
According to the speaker, the dead are not terribly inclined to pass through the grave's "sheltering door" again and their reluctance may suggest a condition of relative ease.
At the other extreme, simple or nuclear families, consisting of husband, wife and their (never-married) children were also infrequent, sheltering less than 15 per cent of the population.
They find little support for the hypothesis that sheltering dividend payments from taxation increases employer stock holdings.
The party has acted as little more than an umbrella sheltering largely independent factions.
It was a realm outside the control of the state, a place where agitators could withdraw into sheltering obscurity.
