shelving

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).

   “Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so shelving that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life.”

2. fiil present participle and gerund of shelve
3. isim Shelves collectively.

   “a shelving unit”

4. isim The side-rails of a cart or waggon.

   “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 […]”

5. isim A sloping surface.

   “[…] the way was all along set so full of Snares, Traps, Gins, and Nets here, and so full of Pits, Pitfalls, deep holes and shelvings down there, that had it now been dark […] had he had a thousand souls, they had in reason been cast away;”