shelfy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shelfy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for shelfy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shelfy adj full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" Synonym(s): reefy, shelfy, shelvy, shoaly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shelfy \Shelf"y\, a. 1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. [bd]A shelfy coast.[b8] --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.