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shelvy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective shelvy has 1 sense
- shelvy(s = adj.all) reefy, shelfy, shoaly - full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"
CIDE DICTIONARY
shelvy, a.
Sloping gradually; shelving. [1913 Webster]
"The shore was shelving and shallow."
[1913 Webster]
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