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shelfy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shelfy \Shelf"y\, a. 1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. ``A shelfy coast.'' --Dryden. 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. --Carew. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shelfy adj : full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: {reefy}, {shelvy}, {shoal}, {shoaly}]
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