Shelfy

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shelfy \Shelf"y\, a.
     1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A
        shelfy coast." --Dryden.
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     2. Full of strata of rock. [Obs.]


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              The tillable fields are in some places . . . so
              shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its
              root.                                 --Carew.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shelfy
       adj : full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy
             shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: {reefy}, {shelvy}, {shoaly}]