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Shelfy   Listen
adjective
Shelfy  adj.  
1.
Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast."
2.
Full of strata of rock. (Obs.) "The tillable fields are in some places... so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shelfy" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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 ...
— Bird Stories • Edith M. Patch



Words linked to "Shelfy" :   shallow, shoaly, reefy



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