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Is shelve a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "to shelve a closet or a library"transitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "The library needs volunteers to help shelve books."; "Before breakfast I employed myself in airing my old bibliomaniacal hobby, entering all the books lately acquired into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked."Antonyms: deshelve, unshelvetransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "I love shelving ecstasy!"; "I had a funny conversation with my dad last night about shelving. It's when you shelve a pill up your bum. It was a lovely dinner conversation. […] My parents were like, in our generation we didn't snort pills, we used to drop them because it's so bad to snort. I was like, Yeah, what about shelving? They were like What? I was, Oh no, I thought you'd know."; "Some people use Ecstasy using a method known as "shafting" or "shelving" which involves inserting a pill or tablet into the anus."figurativelyslangtransitive
4. (transitive)Synonyms: Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in untoWalesfigurativelyslangtransitive
5. (transitive)Examples: "They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost."; "[T]he Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business."; "Among the schemes that have been shelved is one for the electrification of the railway between Bergen and Oslo. [Electrification was completed in 1964.]"Synonyms: mothball#Verb, pigeonhole#Verb, table#Verb, halt#Verb, quit, stop#Verbfigurativelytransitive
6. (transitive)Examples: "The time, too, nearly ripe for his great schemes, made it doubly necessary that he should exert himself, and prevent being shelved with a plausible excuse of tender compassion for his infirmities."alsofigurativelyreflexivetransitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.Examples: ""This lake," said Bruce, "whose barriers drear / Are precipices sharp and sheer, / Yielding no track for goat or deer, / Save the black shelves we tread,[…]""; "Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, / Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, / Shadow'd Enceladus; […]"archaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive, British, dialectal) To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.Britishdialectaltransitive
2. (intransitive)Examples: "The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things."; "From that island's crown / Landward a slope of heather shelveth down / To meet the bar, but all the outer sides, / Sheer walls of porphyry, stem the swinging tides / The Atlantic sendeth, […]"; "The sand shelved gently here. Only at waist-level did the sudden dips occur, and then an upward-sloping hill would lead to a sand-bar, to a new shore islanded in the sea."intransitive
3. (intransitive)intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”).Examples: "But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after."; "[T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh."; "And all was stillness, save the sea-bird's cry, / And dolphin's leap, and little billow crost / By some low rock or shelve, that made it fret / Against the boundary it scarcely wet."alt-ofalternativearchaic
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