What is "shelving"

Usage examples of "shelving".

His desk, unlike the others in the antrum, thrown together and wobbly, was an elaborate sectional apparatus with automatic drawers, a pop-up typewriter, modular shelving and a built-in pencil sharpener that operated on batteries.

Martians and I jumped out on the shelving beach, hauled our boat up high and dry, and there right over us, like great green umbrellas, spread the fronds of the outmost garden of this strangest of all ship-building yards.

She looked over his shoulder into heavy brush, back across the road to a shelving bank and scrubby, dry trees.

Snatching his torch from its bracket, he hastened from the vault, pushed back into place the shelving that hid its entry, and motioned both Valegirl and highlander to follow as he slipped again into the passageway that had brought them.

High up somewhere amid the cloud of beeches and buttonwood trees, our log cabin lay hid, in a gully made by the little stream that filled our pails with a silver trickle over a staircase of shelving rock, and up there Colin was already busy with his skilled French cookery, preparing our evening meal.

Where a ledge of shelving rock, of considerable size, occurs on land to be drained, it is best to make some provision for collecting, at its base, the water flowing over its surface, and taking it at once into the drains, so that it may not make the land near it unduly wet.

The counter is polished mahogany with a footrail, the kind John Wayne might belly up to and ask for a bottle of red whiskey, and a hundred different kinds of liquor bottles are racked on the irregular shelving behind it.

Primitive shelving put up anyhow and anywhere supported paper bags bristling with nails and rinsed-out pickle jars full of nuts and bolts and screws and washers and casters and hinges and springs.

She moves it over the edges of plyboard shelving stacked with snorkel equipment and T-shirts.

PPC habitat, all the words and pictures stored in the tens of thousands of kilometers of shelving, could be stored inside a single maxidense datacube ten centimeters on a side.

But in the morning, O, the smiling coast Tufted with date-trees, meadowlike, Skirted with shelving sands!

Stunned, Carson saw other blooms of incredible fiery radiance exploding in the warehouse to the right and left of the lane where the helmeted man was still coming, each succeeding blast of the incendiaries throwing every detail of the high metal roof beams and trusses into stark relief, even as clouds of bright white smoke billowed above the shelving tiers.

DAYS TO COME they rode through the mountains and they crossed at a barren windgap and sat the horses among the rocks and looked out over the country to the south where the last shadows were running over the land before the wind and the sun to the west lay blood red among the shelving clouds and the distant cordilleras ranged down the terminals of the sky to fade from pale to pale of blue and then to nothing at all.

Disassemblable scale and armamentarium and mood-altering substances used to be concealed in several factory-concealed niches in the special system of niche-riddled portable shelving Pemulis had installed at age 15.

G Tilwyn spent the entire day at the library with Figgis, cataloging and shelving books and helping the scholars from Marn locate history texts.