shelven.1
/ʃɛlv/, U.S. /ʃɛlv/ = shelf n.2 Also in combination †shelveflat.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > shallow place
shoal839
shoala1400
bank?1473
undeep1513
shelf1545
flat1550
vadea1552
ford1563
shallow1571
shoaling1574
ebbs1577
shelve1582
bridge1624
ballow1677
shamble1769
sharp1776
poling ground1901
sea-shoal1903
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of
stone-rochec1200
perilc1300
doubta1400
Charybdisc1400
rocka1475
hazard1524
dangera1538
shelve1582
reef1841
kettle-de-benders1872
ankle-breaker1899
danger-spot1905
banana skin1907
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 15 Then sootherne swashruter huffling Flundge vs on high shelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 861/2 Guidelesse she droue with the tyde vpon a shelue in the shoare of Callis.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 122 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors There lies a Shelve a League in length..at the mouth of the Riuer, which at low water holds not above five or six foot water.
1708 Brit. Apollo 5–10 Nov. The Shelve which stop'd up Sandwich Haven.
1831 W. Scott Pirate (new ed.) Introd. p. iv The wild cape, or formidable shelve, which requires to be marked by a lighthouse.
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shelven.2
/ʃɛlv/, U.S. /ʃɛlv/ A ledge or shelf of rock, or mountain.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ledge or terrace > [noun]
shelvea1701
ledge1732
terrace1753
bench1791
lynchet1797
shelf1807
benching1809
offset1856
cultivation terrace1863
terracing1863
mantelshelf1897
cultivation-bank1913
mantelpiece1920
terracette1922
berm1931
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 75 On the left side of it is shewn the Prophets Bed, being a shelve on the Rock.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 416 We find the valley or shelve, between the third and the highest mountain,..covered with a species of oak.
1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 290 The rapidity and rumbling of the rivers, falling from shelve to shelve.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xvi. 101 Precipices..Yielding no track for goat or deer, Save the black shelves we tread.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 170 Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, Shadow'd Enceladus.
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† shelvev.1
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. ? To shield, defend.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > protect or defend [verb (transitive)]
shieldc825
frithc893
werea900
i-schield971
berghOE
biwerec1000
grithc1000
witec1000
keepc1175
burghena1225
ward?c1225
hilla1240
warrantc1275
witiec1275
forhilla1300
umshadea1300
defendc1325
fendc1330
to hold in or to warrantc1330
bielda1350
warisha1375
succoura1387
defencea1398
shrouda1400
umbeshadow14..
shelvec1425
targec1430
protect?1435
obumber?1440
thorn1483
warrantise1490
charea1500
safeguard1501
heild?a1513
shend1530
warrant1530
shadow1548
fence1577
safekeep1588
bucklera1593
counterguard1594
save1595
tara1612
target1611
screenc1613
pre-arm1615
custodite1657
shelter1667
to guard against1725
cushion1836
enshield1855
mind1924
buffer1958
c1425 Cast. Persev. 2576 in Macro Plays (1904) 154 Whyl he held hym in þis halle, fro dedly synne we did hym schelue [rhyme delue].
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shelvev.2
/ʃɛlv/, U.S. /ʃɛlv/ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)]
hangOE
to hang outc1400
stoop1422
overhang1567
overreach1610
beetlea1616
shelvea1616
oversail1674
impend1780
deject1825
whave1847
overtopple1855
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 115 Her chamber is aloft..And built so sheluing, that one cannot climbe it. View more context for this quotation
2. transitive. To provide with shelves, esp. to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [verb (transitive)]
shelve1598
1598 in H. Bradshaw Coll. Papers 169 Item a studdye desked and shelved rounde.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 188 His Barack..he shelv'd round with platted Twigs after the Manner of his Table.
1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 181 You would be delighted, though, with the little vales, notched and shelved with craggy terraces.
1886 18th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. Ireland 9 in Parl. Papers (C. 4755) XXXVII. 947 Six bays have been shelved with galvanized iron, instead of..wooden fittings.
3.
a. To place on a shelf or shelves; esp. to place or arrange (books) upon shelves.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrange [verb (transitive)] > place on a shelf or shelves
shelve1655
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Cambr. Univ. 79 The..Libraries..are bestowed upon Cambridge, and are beautifully shelved.
1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 11 648/1 This..long expected work, will of course be shelved with eagerness in the libraries of scholars.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 1 July (1941) 70 I employed myself..entering all the books..into a temporary catalogue, so as [to] have them shelved and markd.
1864 Reader 21 May 652/1 To have each book, as it is brought in, registered, shelved, and catalogued.
b. transferred.
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1832 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 288 You knock your head, you bruise your arms, all the while being shelved in a cupboard five feet from the floor.
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. iv. 58 We find it [the bone-bed] shelved high, if I may so speak, in the first storey of the [Upper Silurian] system.
4. figurative. To lay aside as on a shelf, to put away or up as done with.
a. To remove (a person) from active service. Also reflexive.
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society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)]
outOE
deposec1300
remuec1325
to put out1344
to set downc1369
deprivec1374
outputa1382
removea1382
to throw outa1382
to put downc1384
privea1387
to set adowna1387
to put out of ——?a1400
amovec1425
disappoint1434
unmakec1475
dismiss1477
dispoint1483
voidc1503
to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546
relieve1549
cass1550
displace1553
unauthorize1554
to wring out1560
seclude1572
eject1576
dispost1577
decass1579
overboard1585
cast1587
sequester1587
to put to grass1589
cashier1592
discompose1599
abdicate1610
unseat1611
dismount1612
disoffice1627
to take off1642
unchair1645
destitute1653
lift1659
resign1674
quietus1688
superannuate1692
derange1796
shelve1812
shelf1819
Stellenbosch1900
defenestrate1917
axe1922
retire1961
1812 Sporting Mag. 40 131 Defeat, which would tend to annihilate their fame, and what is technically termed shelve them.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. ix. i. 90 [He] being shelved with a plausible excuse of tender compassion for his infirmities.
1850 Ld. Stanley in Croker Papers 18 Aug. (1884) III Some of the present Government..will be shelved.
1876 M. Oliphant Curate in Charge viii To shelve himself in an obscure place like Brentburn.
1885 Manch. Examiner 11 June 5/1 To be shelved in a safe place is not what Lord R. Churchill wants.
b. To put aside (a question, etc.) from consideration.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration
to put out of ——a1250
to lay awaya1400
to set asidec1407
to lay by1439
to lay asidec1440
to let (something) walkc1450
to set apart?1473
reject1490
seclude?1531
to let go1535
to put offc1540
to set by1592
sepose1593
to think away1620
to look over ——a1640
prescind1650
seposit1657
decognize1659
inconsider1697
to set over1701
shelf1819
sink1820
shelve1847
eliminate1848
to count out1854
discounta1856
defenestrate1917
neg1987
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)] > for later treatment or consideration
reservec1384
to put in suspense1421
resplait1447
to put in resplait1452
to leave over?c1475
sleep1519
refer1559
suspend1581
seposit1657
pigeonhole1840
shelve1847
table1849
pend1953
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > neglect > thrust aside into position of neglect
to set (also thrust, or send) to the wall1583
shelve1847
pigeonhole1855
1847 Illustr. London News 10 July 27/1 In order that the opera should not be shelved.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. x. 87 The Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business.
1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 62 In deliberative assemblies, an expedient is sometimes resorted to for shelving the matter in debate by raising what is termed ‘the previous question’.
1890 Spectator 29 Mar. 433/2 It was evident..that the more ambitious part of the original programme would be shelved by common consent.
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shelvev.3
/ʃɛlv/, U.S. /ʃɛlv/ 1. intransitive. Of a surface: To slope gradually. Also with away, in, off, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)] > slope > gradually
shelve1614
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iii. 106 Whose hollow pent-house sheluing steepe Did them from blowes and danger keepe.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 215 That long stretching Malean straine That shelues so farre into the maine.
1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 129 A loose, warme soyle, is accompted best, if it be shelving upon the sunne.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World xiii. 402 The bank shelves away very fast from the Northern shore.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) ii. 38 The first was a [fish] breeding pond, it was made with no great nicety; it shelved in from all sides.
1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 11 A precipitous declivity, which shelved down, upon our right, in one plane of smooth rock, to the depth of 1000 feet.
1860 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders i. 7 The valley of the Atlantic deepens in mid-ocean.., gradually shelving up towards both continents.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 129 Precipitous banks of wood, which shelved downwards from our feet.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche iii. iii. 28 A little hill, whose base Shelved off into the valley all around.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline or be oblique [verb (intransitive)]
lean1398
embelif1413
incline1553
cast1599
shelve1644
descend1675
slant1698
angle1741
cant1794
squint1799
oblique1814
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xix. 166 If you hold a sticke in running water, sheluing against the streame.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 351 The shoots [of the vine] should be fastened so as that, when they grow beyond the frame, they may go shelving from it, and not hang by their binding.
3. transitive. To tilt or tip up (a cart). dialect.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] > of a cart: to tip up
shelve1587
to set up1841
1587 [implied in: A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1544/2 Eight sheluers, which pulled downe the courts [= carts] as they came to the place where it was needfull to vnlode. (at shelver n.1 1)].
1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 29 Shelve, to turn manure, &c., from a cart by raising its front part and causing it to lie obliquely. E[astern].
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial.
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