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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHELFY

a. 1. Full if shelves; abounding with with sand bank or rocks lying near the surface of the water and rendering navigation dangerous; as a shelfy coast.
2. Hard; firm. [See Shelf, No. 3.] [Not in use. ]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SHELFY

SHELFY Shelf "y, a.

1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast. " Dryden.

2. Full of strata of rock. [Obs. ] The tillable fields are in some places... so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. Carew.

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