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adj. - Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.

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  • Just like me shelfy shelf at home and I got a terrible twang in my terrible stomach and I missed my dark slips.
  • I just need to get some storage for under the desk I tried Ikea and found nothing suitable, but I think I'll try again - if I can't get a little shelfy unit thing from...
  • Smooth water, sandy coves, and shelfy landings tempted comfortable jobs; and any man owning a boat that would carry a sail as big as a shawl might smuggle, with heed of...
  • So that was Larie's third world -- an island with a soft rug of bright-green grass, and big shelfy rocks of red and green and gray, and rugged dark-green trees, with...
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