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shelfy

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃɛlfi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted efhlsyStarts with SEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals

Word origin

From shelf + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • And, o'er the dang'rous deep, secure the navy flies; / Glides by the Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, / Long infamous for ships and sailors lost
  • According to Potter and Pattison (1977) , the most common surface landform found along the Antelope Point shoreline is shelfy terrace .
  • The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten his root.

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