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shelfy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective shelfy has 1 sense
- shelfy(s = adj.all) reefy, shelvy, shoaly - full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" Derived form noun shelf2
CIDE DICTIONARY
shelfy, a.
- Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Full of strata of rock. [1913 Webster]"The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root." [1913 Webster]
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