Shelfy

Shelf´y

a.	1.	Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
	2.	Full of strata of rock. The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. - Carew.

Thesaurus

Adj.

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shelfy - full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" reefy, shelvy, shoaly shallow - lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"