Shelving is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHELVING in dictionary:

VERB:
• place or arrange (items, especially books) on a shelf
• decide not to proceed with (a project or plan), either temporarily or permanently
• fit with shelves
• (of ground) slope downwards in a specified manner or direction
NOUN:
• material for shelves
• (material for) shelves
• The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.
• The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.
• Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.
ADJECTIVE:
• Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to place on a shelf

Words related to SHELVING

shelve12 shelved14 shelves13 shelvings16

Words that contain SHELVING

shelvings16

How to use SHELVING in a sentence

• Most of it was thrashed into dusty spray like that into which small waterfalls are divided when they dash on shelving rocks.
• The shores of the lake are shelving, and afford good situations for placing fish-weirs, which are here established on an extensive scale.
• I bade the men to row with all their force Until we came before the shelving ledge.
• But the lines deepened on his weather-scarred face as he saw, gathering on the shelving beach, the wild, yellow-haired men of the island.
• The bed of the river at this place is rocky and shelving.
• The channel generally is confined by sandstone at places by shelving rocks a few feet high and inaccessible for horses.
• At length about a quarter of a mile above the falls he found a deep ravine where there were some shelving rocks, under which he took refuge.
• Then, without letting him answer, she turned swiftly round again, and sprang up the rugged stairway of the shelving rock.
• He slid the shelving, pointed prow out on another ice cake and thus, alternately progressing, he neared the shore.
• From ten yards away and at a first glance, one might almost have mistaken this secret door for a section of shelving filled with genuine books.
• Let the smoke-wreath melt away at its leisure, and do you admire, along with us, the infinite variety of all those little shelving and sloping roofs.
• Suddenly Cook found himself in shoal water, on a lee shore, long and low and shelving, with the ice drifting on his ships.
• Opposite the mouth of Del Muerto there is an elevated rocky area of considerable extent, perhaps 50 feet above the bottom, but shelving off around the edges.
• His body came into a back eddy of the stream and drifted gently on to a shelving bank of white sand.
• Hare could not bring himself to face the light and heat, and he stopped at a wind- worn cave under a shelving rock.
• On his visits to the city he usually had an eye for book bargains, and thus his board shelving came to be quite a little library.
• Before them was a little hollow, filled with small stones, and beyond were some shelving rocks with large cracks between.
• When the hunt was resumed Jed Sanborn turned along the mountainside, where there were a series of shelving rocks.
• Beyond this depth the sounding-lead rests, not upon the wall-like face of the reef, but on the ordinary shelving sea-bottom.
• In this system the catalogue and book numbers remain unchanged through all changes of shelving, buildings, or arrangement.
• He could hear the soft stealthy plunge and following rush of the sea up the white shelving beach.
• Now it is here we leave the track, Jesus said, and he turned his ass into a little path leading down a steeply shelving hillside.
• Under a great, shelving rock, damp and stained by the copper-colored water dripping down its side, was a dewy dell into which the sunshine had never peeped.
• Only in one place, right ahead, the breakers seemed nearer, and as if there might be shelving shore on which they ran, rather than shattering cliffs on which they beat.
• Under a shelving rock I found a pack of food, carefully protected by a heavy slab.
• Modern library plans provide accommodations for readers near the books they want to use whatever system of shelving is adopted.

Similar words containing SHELV without suffix ing

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