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▪ I. shelfy, a.1 (ˈʃɛlfɪ) [f. shelf n.2 + -y. Cf. shelvy.] Abounding in sandbanks lying near the surface of the water.1576 Sir H. Gilbert Disc. Pass. Cataia vi, Because all Seas..are maintained by the abundance of the water, waxing more shallow and shelffie towards the ende. 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii. ...
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slatty
† ˈslatty, a. Obs. [f. slat n.1 + -y.] Slaty.1661 J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 74 In a Clayie and slatty Countrey. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 120 They have harder, stony, slatty sorts of Marles. 1758 Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 59 The black and gritty, the shelfy slatty Soil, and the stiff reddish Soil.
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shelf
▪ I. shelf, n.1 (ʃɛlf) Pl. shelves (ʃɛlvz). Forms: 5 schelf(f)e, 5–7 shelfe, 7 shealfe, 5– shelf; pl. 4– shelves, (5 schelves, -ys, 6 sylwes); 5 schelfes, 5–7 shelfes, 5–8 shelfs. [app. ad. (M)LG. schelf shelf, set of shelves (whence also the northern skelf), cogn. w. OE. scylfe (of uncertain meanin...
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