The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unshelve \Un*shelve"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + shelve.] To remove from, or as from, a shelf.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To remove from a shelf. 2 (context figuratively transitive English) To bring back something that was shelved, or put aside.
Usage examples of "unshelve".
Moving boxes, unshelved books, and crumpled paper still littered the living room.
Though even a sliver of unshelved wallspace in a bookshop might seem like folly in these parts, the view from the street was seductive.
The more ancient tomes, still chained to the bookshelves, had been unshelved, and hung from their links like prisoners in some dungeon cell.
Stumbling over a pile of unshelved books, she uttered a very colorful curse, her vivid blue eyes full of exasperation.
A plain, sturdy bench, several chairs and a moth-ravaged hanging on the only unshelved portion of wall comprised the furnishings.
In the few scant stretches of unshelved wall, niches held statues and a few ignored curios forlorn in polished glass cases.
For they believed no Master cartridge would have lain unshelved in a bag or damp box: even the dim brothers Antitoi, seeing the unique case and slightly larger size of a Master, would have put this to the special side, and arranged for the special 585-r.
He raked his unshelved books into tipsy piles, grabbed bits of string and augury cards to use as stopgap markers, then gave up and left the last covers flopped open, stacked in alcoves and unswept corners.
Those papers that do make it into print are months old and accessing them involves the physical drudgery of moving around in the library, unshelving and reshelving volumes of old journals, and sometimes travelling to other libraries or waiting for them to make and send you copies.
The more ancient tomes, still chained to the bookshelves, had been unshelved, and hung from their links like prisoners in some dungeon cell.
Over on the desk, a yellow legal pad was skewed between the computer and a couple of unshelved books.
That one wasn't precisely messy, but he did permit books to remain unshelved for days at a time.
In time these manifestations, originally rare, and, indeed, at first limited almost entirely to those nights when thunder rumbled among the pale towers, became common, and there were unmistakable signs of the other's presence: a book he had not unshelved in decades lying beside a chair.
They descended to a deep sub-basement of the library, a place of low ceilings, narrow hallways choked with unshelved data bricks, and dim red lighting tuned for sensitive drone eyes.