Shelf″y (?), a. 1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. “A shelfy coast.” Dryden.
2. Full of strata of rock.
The tillable fields are in some places... so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. Carew.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.