Shelving

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.

II. Shelving ·adj Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.

III. Shelving ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Shelve.

IV. Shelving ·noun The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.

V. Shelving ·noun The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.

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