Definitions for shelvings

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shelvings shelv·ing

Spelling: [shel-ving]

IPA: /ˈʃɛl vɪŋ/

Shelvings is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in shelvings (eghilnssv).

Definitions for shelvings

noun

1. material for shelves.
2. shelves collectively.
3. material for shelves.
4. shelves collectively.

verb (used with object)

1. to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
2. to put off or aside from consideration:
3. to remove from active use or service; dismiss.
4. to furnish with shelves.
5. to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
6. to put off or aside from consideration:
7. to remove from active use or service; dismiss.
8. to furnish with shelves.

verb (used without object)

1. to slope gradually.
2. to slope gradually.

Origin of shelvings

First recorded in 1625-35; shelve¹ + -ing¹

Examples for shelvings

Here he emptied his pockets on the table and built a shelving house of gold.

The narrow, shelving beach, rivalled the whiteness of a fresh snow-drift.

If there are cliffs or shelving rocks near by, go and see them.

This shelving of the real facts, of course, is unconscious on the part of women.

Then, when we could see sufficiently, we swam to a shelving rock, and landed in safety.

Gradually the water shoaled as they made their way up the shelving sand.

But pray recollect that they grow where the rocks are both slippery and shelving.

As they lay, the shelving rock was less than two feet above their heads.

Beyond February 14, the collapse is shelving more complex plans.

Meanwhile, the search, expected to last 10 hours per day, began with the removal of some shelving.

Gradually the water shoaled as they made their way up the shelving sand.

As they lay, the shelving rock was less than two feet above their heads.

The narrow, shelving beach, rivalled the whiteness of a fresh snow-drift.

Then, when we could see sufficiently, we swam to a shelving rock, and landed in safety.

This shelving of the real facts, of course, is unconscious on the part of women.

If there are cliffs or shelving rocks near by, go and see them.

Here he emptied his pockets on the table and built a shelving house of gold.

Beyond February 14, the collapse is shelving more complex plans.

But pray recollect that they grow where the rocks are both slippery and shelving.

Meanwhile, the search, expected to last 10 hours per day, began with the removal of some shelving.