• Shelving

    Verb

    verb

    1. Present participle of shelve.

    Full definition of shelving

    Noun

    shelving

    (plural shelvings)
    1. Shelves collectively.There is ample shelving in the basement.
    2. (chiefly in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
      • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 47: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 ….
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