shelving

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Adjective

shelving

1. sloping steeply

Verb

1. present participle of shelve#English|shelve

Noun

shelving

1. Shelves collectively.

   There is ample shelving in the basement.

2. (chiefly, in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 47:

     So, creaking and creaking, and the shelvins skirling under the weight of their load, they passed that danger point, the carts plodded into motion again […]

3. (rare) The bank of a river etc.

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