Sekirov Dictionary

shelving

noun 3
adjective 1
forms 3

noun3

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Shelves collectively.
- There is ample shelving in the basement.
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[in the plural] The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
- So, creaking and creaking, and the shelvins skirling under the weight of their load, they passed that danger point, the carts plodded into motion again […] — 1932
•
(no longer used) A sloping surface.
- dry light sand, blown from higher shelvings, striped the dark wet edges of the shore — 1919

adjective1

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Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).
- Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so shelving that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life. — 1594

forms

shelvings · more shelving · most shelving

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