shelving
English
Adjective
shelving (comparative more shelving, superlative most shelving)
- sloping steeply
Translations
sloping steeply
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Verb
shelving
- present participle of shelve
Noun
shelving (plural shelvings)
- Shelves collectively.
- There is ample shelving in the basement.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 47:
- So, creaking and creaking, and the shelvins skirling under the weight of their load, they passed that danger point, the carts plodded into motion again […].
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 47:
Translations
shelves collectively
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