'Shelfy' definitions:

Definition of 'shelfy'

From: WordNet
adjective
Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" [syn: reefy, shelfy, shelvy, shoaly]

Definition of 'Shelfy'

From: GCIDE
  • Shelfy \Shelf"y\, a.
  • 1. Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Full of strata of rock. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. --Carew. [1913 Webster]