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Shelvy

adjective
1.
Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.  Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shoaly.  "Shoaly waters"






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"Shelvy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Renwick came, and when he had descended into the dell, where we were gathered together, after speaking a few words of courtesy to certain of his acquaintance, he went to a place on the shelvy side of the glen, and took his ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

... by the shelvy marge, Wont deftly across to speed its charge; Now jumping and twisting, like leaf on a lynn, Wo! if a foot ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various



Words linked to "Shelvy" :   shallow, shelfy



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