shelving
/ʃˈɛlvɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).
Example Sentences
- "Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so shelving that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life."
- "We still continued winding round Skiddaw, the sides of which are every where rather shelving, than steep."
- "1858, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter 3, p. 87, her cheeks, which, on Whitsunday, loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work, were, on Trinity Sunday, seen reposing in distinct red outline on her shelving bust, like the sun on a fog-bank"
- "The town of Abda is built upon the top and down the steeply shelving face of an isolated rocky spur,"
- "[…] a gently shelving plain led to a huge forest through which there were tracks that could safely be followed."
- "a shelving unit"