Crossword clues for shelves
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shelf \Shelf\, n.; pl. Shelves. [OE. shelfe, schelfe, AS. scylfe; akin to G. schelfe, Icel. skj[=a]lf. In senses 2 & 3, perhaps a different word (cf. Shelve, v. i.).]
(Arch.) 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.
On the tawny sands and shelves.
--Milton.On the secret shelves with fury cast.
--Dryden. (Mining) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
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(Naut.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
--D. Kemp.To lay on the shelf, to lay aside as unnecessary or useless; to dismiss; to discard.
Wiktionary
n. (shelf English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: shelve)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "shelves".
A cot, more shelves, a recorder, a viewer, and two comfortable chairs completed the furnishings.
There were two massage tables, sturdy, padded, with shelves of oils and salves underneath.
The shelves of neat bags and bound stalks, the jars of seeds and salves bulged.
Water flowed over worn shelves of rock, stained with red-brown iron oxide and tumbled into teeming pools.
He moved towards the shelves, taking down the fruit bowl and placing it on the center of the couch.
Kira inspected the contents with quick fingers and, closing the case, strapped it with care against the rigors of acceleration on the shelves behind the bed.
She was in a library, an ancient library of leather-bound books in shelves that reached towards the dark coffered wood of the ceiling.
Drawers and shelves contained sundry items from instant sustenance packets to gourmet freeze-dried foods, bottles of wine and hard liquor, drawers packed with circuit boards and tools, manuals (two marked TOP SECRET), including one for MPUs, and odd-shaped vacuum packs, identified only by serial codes.
Sliding panels covered the closet space on one side of the door, and to his left there were rough shelves and in the south wall another door, which opened into a well-equipped bathroom.
Whatever personal items remained in the drawers or on the shelves, the merit awards on the wall, the signed holograms of singers she'd hoped to emulate or excel, no longer concerned her or belonged to her.
It contained her berth, a scrounged unit cut out of one of the dead ships at SpaceBase, a shaky tabletop pegged into the wall and placed so she could sit on her berth to eat, plus the stove and the shelves she had built from old storage crates to hold her few belongings.
Technicians were feeding data to computers, and medical personnel were stocking shelves and unpacking boxes.
Doubtless that had gone back to the library shelves for something more challenging.
I'll get a few of those shelves over here/' Kris suggested, going over to one side where she'd seen the empty shelving, "and separate as we go.
Muttering under his breath, he strode across to the shelves, trying to find the text he wanted.