Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of shelves: Shalvy.
- Full of rocky up-cropping ledges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
- adjective obsolete Full of strata of rock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Abounding in
shelves ; full ofdangerous shallows . - adjective obsolete Full of
strata ofrock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just like me shelfy shelf at home and I got a terrible twang in my terrible stomach and I missed my dark slips.
Magic X Nina Alvarez 2010
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I just need to get some storage for under the desk I tried Ikea and found nothing suitable, but I think I'll try again - if I can't get a little shelfy unit thing from Ikea, where can I go?
Archive 2008-07-01 Katy 2008
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I just need to get some storage for under the desk I tried Ikea and found nothing suitable, but I think I'll try again - if I can't get a little shelfy unit thing from Ikea, where can I go?
Where I Spend My Days.... Katy 2008
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Smooth water, sandy coves, and shelfy landings tempted comfortable jobs; and any man owning a boat that would carry a sail as big as a shawl might smuggle, with heed of the weather, and audacity.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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So away she sped by a lonely little foot-path, where nobody could take from her contagion of bad morals; and avoiding the incline of boats, she made off nicely for the quiet outer bay, and there, upon a shelfy rock, she sat and breathed the sea.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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So that was Larie's third world -- an island with a soft rug of bright-green grass, and big shelfy rocks of red and green and gray, and rugged dark-green trees, with white gulls resting on the branches, and a lighthouse with its signal.
Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim
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Glides by the Sirens cliffs, a shelfy coast, 1125
The Fifth Book of the Aeneis Vergil 1909
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While he was speaking, his flies alit on the glassy ripple, like gnats in their love-dance; and then by a turn of the wrist, he played them just below the surface, and let them go gliding down the stickle, into the shelfy nook of shadow where the big trout hovered.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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So away she sped by a lonely little foot-path, where nobody could take from her contagion of bad morals; and avoiding the incline of boats, she made off nicely for the quiet outer bay, and there, upon a shelfy rock, she sat and breathed the sea.
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Smooth water, sandy coves, and shelfy landings tempted comfortable jobs; and any man owning a boat that would carry a sail as big as a shawl might smuggle, with heed of the weather, and audacity.
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