Shelfy
Shelf"y\, a. 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.| shelfy | |
adjective | |
| full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: reefy] |