shelving

CEFRB2

/ʃˈɛlvɪŋ/

noun · verb · adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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We need to install more shelving in the garage for the tools.
There is ample shelving in the basement.
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...

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Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so shelving that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life.
c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, Scene 1
We still continued winding round Skiddaw, the sides of which are every where rather shelving, than steep.
1789, William Gilpin, Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, London: R. Blamire, Volume 2, Section 36, p. 157
The town of Abda is built upon the top and down the steeply shelving face of an isolated rocky spur,
1914, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 5, in The Wilderness of Zin,, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1936, page 109
[…] a gently shelving plain led to a huge forest through which there were tracks that could safely be followed.
1987, Edward Rutherfurd, Sarum, London: Century, page 6
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 […]
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 47

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By surface analysis, shelve + -ing.