shelfy
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Shelf′y adjective
1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. “A shelfy coast.” John Dryden
2. Full of strata of rock. obsolete
The tillable fields are in some places... so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root.— Carew, Richard
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54