Meaning of shelve | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.
   archaic
2. Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”).
   alt-of, alternative, archaic
3. A hamlet in Worthen with Shelve parish, western Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3399).

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Examples

“"This lake," said Bruce, "whose barriers drear / Are precipices sharp and sheer, / Yielding no track for goat or deer, / Save⟳ the black shelves we tread,[…]"”

“Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, / Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, / Shadow'd Enceladus; […]”

“But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.”

“[T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.”

“And all was stillness, save⟳ the sea-bird's cry⟳, / And dolphin's leap⟳, and little billow crost / By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret / Against the boundary it scarcely wet⟳.”

“But upon inquiry among the company, this plan⟳ was wrecked upon the ordinary shelve, to wit, the difficulty of finding performers who would consent to assume⟳ the lower characters of the drama.”

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