▪ I. shelver1
(ˈʃɛlvɛ(r))
[f. shelve v.3 + -er1.]
1. A workman employed to tilt carts.
| 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1544/2 Eight sheluers, which pulled downe the courts as they came to the place where it was needfull to vnlode. Ibid. 1545/1 When the taile of the court was turned to the water side, the sheluer plucked downe the load. |
2. (See quot.)
| 1891 Century Dict., Shelver, a wagon or truck shelving or sloping toward the back. |
▪ II. shelver2 rare.
(ˈʃɛlvə(r))
[f. shelve v.2 + -er1.]
One who shelves or puts aside.
| 1881 Times 26 Mar. 13/4 The treaty..was shelved with the avowed intention on the part of the shelvers to get rid of it altogether. |
Restrict rare to sense in Dict. and add: 2. One who shelves books, esp. in a library. orig. U.S.
| 1952 W. H. Jesse Shelf Work in Libraries vii. 64 The inexperienced shelver is not sure that where he thinks a book belongs is its proper location. 1966 Occupations in Field of Library Sci. (U.S. Employment Service) 33 Library page; runner; shelver; shelving clerk; stack clerk. 1979 E. F. Brown Cutting Library Costs viii. 146 There may be time only for putting all the 500's together,..leaving the final sub-arrangement to the shelvers before they begin to shelve. 1983 Amer. Libraries Apr. 174/1 One of the staffers, a 19-year-old shelver, found a youth in the stacks and told him he would have to leave. |