What is "shelfy"

Shelfy \Shelf"y\, a.

1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. ``A shelfy coast.''
   --Dryden.

2. Full of strata of rock. [Obs.]

   The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root.
   --Carew.

a. 1 (context obsolete English) Abounding in shelf; full of dangerous shallows. 2 (context obsolete English) Full of stratum of rock.

adj. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: reefy, shelvy, shoaly]