Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so shelving that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life.
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Shelving
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1 entries- tahatō adj (sloping steeply)
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We still continued winding round Skiddaw, the sides of which are every where rather shelving, than steep.
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1858, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter 3, p. 87, her cheeks, which, on Whitsunday, loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work, were, on Trinity Sunday, seen reposing in distinct red outline on her shelving bust, like the sun on a fog-bank
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The town of Abda is built upon the top and down the steeply shelving face of an isolated rocky spur,
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