shelfy

Adjective

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Adjective (1)

  1. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals“reefy shallows”“shoaly waters”Synonyms: reefyshelvyshoalyOpposite deepSimilar shallow
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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

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