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SHELF, n. plu. shelves.
1. A platform of boards or planks, elevated above the floor, and fixed and set on a frame or contiguous to a wall, for holding vessels, utensils, books and the like.
2. A sand bank in the sea, or a rock or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow and dangerous to ships.
3. In mining, fast ground; the part of the internal structure of the earth which lies in an even regular form.
A
flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance
from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
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. A stratum lying in a very
even manner] a flat, projecting layer of rock.
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. | ||||||||