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adjective
Shelfy
adj.
1.
Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
"A shelfy coast."
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."
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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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third world—an island with a soft rug of bright-green grass, and big
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rocks of red and green and gray, and rugged dark-green trees, with white gulls resting on the branches, and a
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— Bird Stories • Edith M. Patch
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