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1. a. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. Source: opted
2. a. Full of strata of rock. Source: opted
3. adj. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals Source: wordnet
4. 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. Source: webster
5. a. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. a. Full of strata of rock. Source: ecdict

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