SHELVE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.

2.
v.

To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.

3.
v.

To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.

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