From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en].
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Sloping (as opposed to horizontal ly flat or vertical ly upright ).
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=c. 1594 | author=w:William Shakespeare | title=w:Two Gentlemen of Verona | section=Act III, Scene 1 | url=https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=twogents&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
|passage=Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so SHELVING
that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1789 | author= [William Gilpin (priest)] | title=Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776 | location=London | publisher=R. Blamire | section=Volume 2, Section 36, p. 157 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004864140.0001.002
|passage=We still continued winding round [Skiddaw], the sides of which are
every where rather SHELVING, than steep. }}
1. * 1858 , [George Eliot] , _[Scenes of Clerical Life] ,_ Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume [nbsp] 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter [nbsp] 3, p. [nbsp] 87, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/scenesclericall05eliogoog/page/n96/mode/1up?q=shelving </sup>
2. *: her cheeks, which, on Whitsunday, loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work, were, on Trinity Sunday, seen reposing in distinct red outline on her SHELVING bust, like the sun on a fog-bank
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1914 | author=w:T. E. Lawrence | title=The Wilderness of Zin, | location=London | publisher=Jonathan Cape | year_published=1936 | chapter=5 | page=109 | url=https://archive.org/details/wildernessofzin0000wool/page/108/mode/1up?q=shelving
|passage=The town of Abda is built upon the top and down the steeply SHELVING
face of an isolated rocky spur,}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1987 | author=w:Edward Rutherfurd | title= [Sarum (novel)] | location=London | publisher=Century | page=6 | url=https://archive.org/details/sarum0000ruth/page/5/mode/1up?q=shelving
|passage=[...] a gently SHELVING plain led to a huge forest through which
there were tracks that could safely be followed.}}
**** Translations
[sloping steeply]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. Shelves collectively.
2. [en] The side- rail s of a cart or waggon .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1932 | author=w:Lewis Grassic Gibbon | title=Sunset Song | publisher=Polygon | year_published=2006 | series=A Scots Quair | page=47
|passage=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 [...]}}
1. [en] A sloping surface .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1678 | author=w:John Bunyan | title= [The Pilgrim's Progress] | location=London | publisher=Nath. Ponder | page=82 | url=https://archive.org/details/thepilgrimsprogr00bunyuoft/page/82/mode/1up?q=gins
|passage=[...] 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;}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1844 | author=w:Charles Dickens | title=w:Martin Chuzzlewit | url=https://archive.org/details/adventuresoflife00dickrich/page/412/mode/1up?q=shelvings | chapter=35 | page=412
|passage=[The little room] had more corners in it than the brain of an
obstinate man; was full of mad closets, into which nothing could be put that
was not specially invented and made for that purpose; had mysterious SHELVINGS
and bulk-heads [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1919 | author=w:Henry Blake Fuller | title= [Bertram Cope's Year] | location=Chicago | publisher=R.F. Seymour | chapter=29 | page=276 | url=https://archive.org/details/bertramcopesyear00fulluoft/page/276/mode/1up?q=shelvings
|passage=dry light sand, blown from higher SHELVINGS, striped the dark wet
edges of the shore}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1929 | author=w:Thomas Wolfe | title=w:Look Homeward, Angel | location=New York | publisher=The Modern Library | section=Part 2, Chapter 24, p. 345 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.475765/page/n357/mode/1up?q=shelving
|passage=Frau Von Zeck settled her powerful chins upon the coarse SHELVING of
her Wagnerian breasts [...]}}
**** Translations
[shelves collectively] [trans-bottom]
*** Related terms
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