Shelving
['ʃelvɪŋ] or ['ʃɛlvɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelve
(a.) Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.
(n.) The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.
(n.) The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.
(n.) Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.
Editor: Milton
Examples
- You may kiss your hand towards that highest shelving roof. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The sandy ground, shelving downward from where we sat, was lost mysteriously in the outward layers of the fog. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ground, shelving away below me, was all sand, with a few little heathy hillocks to break the monotony of it in certain places. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Editor: Milton