SHELF
\ʃˈɛlf], \ʃˈɛlf], \ʃ_ˈɛ_l_f]\
Definitions of SHELF
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
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A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
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A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
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A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
By Oddity Software
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A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
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A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
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A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
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A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
By Noah Webster.
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A flat ledge or board, usually long and narrow and set horizontally into a wall, for holding things; a flat ledge of rock.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A board fixed on a wall, etc., for laying things on: a flat layer of rock: a ledge: a shoal: a sandbank:-pl. SHELVES (shelvz).
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SHELFY.
By Daniel Lyons
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A board or slab set horizontally into or against a wall.
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A flat projecting ledge of rock; a reef; shoal.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo Saxon] A board or platform elevated above the floor and fixed or set horizontally on a frame or contiguous to a wall for holding vessels books, &c.;—a sand-bank in the sea, or a rock or ledge „ of rocks rendering the water shallow and dangerous to ships;—in mining, a level vein or stratum , or a flat projecting layer of rock.
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