shelfy

English

Etymology

shelf +‎ -y

Adjective

shelfy (comparative more shelfy, superlative most shelfy)

1. (obsolete) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
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     a shelfy coast

2. (obsolete) Full of strata of rock.
   • (Can we date this quote by Carew and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root.

Synonyms

• shelvy

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shelfy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• fleshy