Shelver

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who or that which shelves something.

    "Some students do part-time work as shelvers in the library."

  2. 2
    a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves wordnet

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"Some students do part-time work as shelvers in the library."

Etymology

From shelve + -er.

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