Shelving

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shelve

(a.) Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore.

(n.) The act of fitting up shelves; as, the job of shelving a closet.

(n.) The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.

(n.) Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.

录入:米尔顿

• You may kiss your hand towards that highest shelving roof. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The sandy ground, shelving downward from where we sat, was lost mysteriously in the outward layers of the fog. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The ground, shelving away below me, was all sand, with a few little heathy hillocks to break the monotony of it in certain places. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

录入:米尔顿