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Meaning of SHELVY

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"
 
 Synonyms: reefy, shallow, shelfy, shoal, shoaly
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Shelv"y\, a.
Sloping gradually; shelving.

      The shore was shelving and shallow.      --Shak.
 

 

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