Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shelfy"
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) 1.7 (wn)
shelfy
adj : full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy
shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: {reefy}, {shelvy}, {shoal},
{shoaly}]
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