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Webster 1913 Edition
Shelfy
Shelf′y
,Adj.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Shelfy
SHELF'Y
,Adj.
1. Full if shelves; abounding with with sand bank or rocks lying near the surface of the water and rendering navigation dangerous; as a shelfy coast.
2. Hard; firm. [See Shelf, No. 3.] [Not in use.]