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▪ I. shelving, vbl. n.1|ˈʃɛlvɪŋ|
Also dial. (in sense 3) shilvin, shilbin, selvin, silvin: see Eng. Dial. Dict.
[f. shelve v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb shelve2.
1632in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 297 The Shelving of all Roomes vnwainscotted and vnpannelled with Seates and bracketts. 1665R. Brathwait Comm. Chaucer (Chaucer Soc.) 9 From whence he descendeth to the too accurate disposing or shelving of his Books, his Augur stones [etc.]. 1848Blackw. Mag. Sept. 279 Whilst on the subject of shelving, let us remark that the Scottish..Bills have shared a similar fate.
2. Shelves collectively, also material for shelves.
1817M. Austin Let. 30 June in E. C. Barker Austin Papers (1924) I. 316 He has the Plank..selected,..as many as is wanted for shelving. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 214 The best shelving for a milk-house is marble. 1895Scully Kafir Stories 18 The counter was high..and the shelving, sparsely filled with..bottles.
3. pl. See quot. 1788. Also rarely in sing.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 16 Lay them in 4 severall rowes, crosse over the shelvinges of the waine. 1788W. H. Marshall E. Yorks. II. 351 Shelvings, moveable side-rails of a waggon or cart; put on for a top-load, and taken off for a body-load. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 38 By the addition of shelvings..the different crops can be carried with great facility. 1867Gainsburgh News 23 Mar. in N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v. Sideboard, 1 waggon with shelvings and sideboards. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb i, Heely, heely, Tam, ye glaiket stirk—ye hinna on the hin' shelvin' o' the cairt.
▪ II. shelving, vbl. n.2|ˈʃɛlvɪŋ|
[f. shelve v.3 + -ing1.]
1. The tilting or tipping up of carts to deposit the load.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1544/2 Eight men called vntingers, to loose and vndoo the tackle of euerie court immediatlie before the vnloding or sheluing thereof.
2. The fact or condition of sloping; the degree of sloping; a sloping surface; a shelve.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 87 In some places they make a little shelving, that the rain-Water may run off [from the terrace] into wooden Spouts. 1721Mortimer Husb. (ed. 2) II. 192 To be..raised a Foot or more higher than the South-side, that by a little shelving the Cover may the better carry off the Rain. 1853Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. III. xxix. 170 The great inclination of the shelvings, the smallness of the island,..may be considered as..causes of the want of rivers.
▪ III. shelving, ppl. a.|ˈʃɛlvɪŋ|
[f. shelve v.3 + -ing2.]
That shelves or slopes.
1615G. Sandys Trav. iii. 192 In the midst of the sheluing roofe, another vpright aspireth. 1621― Ovid's Met. ix. (1626) 182 A Lake there is, which sheluing margents bound. 1662Gerbier Principles 34 Its usual standing place being so much shelving, accustomes the Horse..to be more light..in his Gate. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 564 Where to the seas the shelving shore declin'd And form'd a bay. 1762Colman Mus. Lady ii. 24 A couple of vile shelving garrets, where I could scarce stand upright. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xli. IV. 128 Innumerable arrows glanced without effect from the compact and shelving order of their bucklers. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. lxii, The room..had a shelving roof; high in one part, and at another descending almost to the floor. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 51 We descend a shelving gravelly plain into Berber.
b. quasi-adv.
1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. iii. 20 If your Lands lye more shelving or descending towards the River. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. xvi. 105 Peeces of Wood..set shelving, or leaning towards the North. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing iii. 20 The Case standing shelving downwards towards them, the Letters..tend towards the hither side. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1776) ii. s.v. Talus, Couper en Talus, to hew a plank shelving, or with a slanting edge.
Hence ˈshelvingly adv., ˈshelvingness.
1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. iv. 46 One [Beast] appeared just in the midst before the Throne, and the spectacle being exhibited to him shelvingly, another appeared beyond the Throne in the same line. 1727Boyer Fr.-Eng. Dict., Penchant, steepness, declivity, bending, shelvingness, bias. |