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Shelfy
//ˈʃɛlfi// adj
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Adjective
- 1 Abounding in shelves; containing crossbedded hard and soft layers that result in rocky shelves at varying angles.
"And, o'er the dang'rous deep, secure the navy flies; / Glides by the Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, / Long infamous for ships and sailors lost"
- 2 Full of strata of rock. obsolete
"The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten his root."
- 3 Shelf-like; resembling or pertaining to a shelf.
"His rosebud lay on shelfy breast,And deem it quite a fragrant jest."
- 4 Relatively horizontal and flat with low friction.
"Reduced models have long been used to describe the mechanics of ice sheets and ice shelves, while more recently a shelf-like model has been used to describe the mechanics of shelfy streams, where the basal friction is ' small ' in a precisely definable sense."
Adjective
- 1 full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals wordnet
Etymology
From shelf + -y.
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