shelfy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals
    shelvy; reefy; shoaly.
    • reefy shallows
    • shoaly waters

WordNet

Shelf"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden.
  2. Full of strata of rock. Obs.
    The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. Carew.

Webster 1913