shelfy

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shelfy

/ˈʃɛlfi/

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From shelf + -y.

adjective more shelfy · most shelfy

Abounding in shelves; containing crossbedded hard and soft layers that result in rocky shelves at varying angles. And, o'er the dang'rous deep, secure the navy flies; / Glides by the Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, / Long infamous for ships and sailors lost
obsolete Full of strata of rock. The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten his root.
Shelf-like; resembling or pertaining to a shelf. His rosebud lay on shelfy breast,And deem it quite a fragrant jest.
Relatively horizontal and flat with low friction. Reduced models have long been used to describe the mechanics of ice sheets and ice shelves, while more recently a shelf-like model has been used to describe the mechanics of shelfy streams, where the basal friction is ' small ' in a precisely definable sense.

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@misc{shelfy_2026,
  title = {shelfy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shelfy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}