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▪ I. shelvy, a.1|ˈʃɛlvɪ|
[f. shelve n.1 + -y.]
Of a shore: Having shelves or dangerous sand-banks. † Of a brook: Full of sand-banks.
Perh. used by some writers with sense derived from shelve v.3: Sloping down.
1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. v. 15, I had beene drown'd, but that the shore was sheluy and shallow. 1609R. Armin Ital. Taylor C 4 b, Through sheluie Brooks (by sedgy bancks The shallow and the deepe). 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 26 The Leeward part of the Iland being rather shelvie then rockie, they seldome or never are cast away. 1746W. Horsley Fool (1748) I. 202 The Ship would be certainly wrecked on the shelvy Coast of Holland. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 84 As well..On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side. 1804Scott Bard's Incant. 8 The waves..dash against the shelvy strand. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 2 Uncouth people fishing on a shelvy shore. 1885A. Munro Siren Casket 5 He breasts the main And gains, much-spent, a shelvy reef.
▪ II. shelvy, a.2 rare.|ˈʃɛlvɪ|
[f. shelve n.2 + -y.]
Projecting like a shelf; overhanging.
1811D. Buchan in J. Barrow Chron. Hist. Voyages (1818) App. i. 8 At noon several difficulties presented themselves in crossing a tract of shelvy ice, intersected with deep and wide rents. 1831J. Porter Sir E. Seaward's Narr. I. 148, I deposited the spade under a shelvy rock. 1862Borrow Wild Wales II. xii. 131 The shelvy side of Snowdon rose above me on the left. |