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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
shelfy
    adj 1: full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy
           shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: reefy, shelfy,
           shelvy, shoaly]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shelfy \Shelf"y\, a.
   1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A
      shelfy coast." --Dryden.
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   2. Full of strata of rock. [Obs.]
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            The tillable fields are in some places . . . so
            shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its
            root.                                 --Carew.
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