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About the size of carpenter’s plane, it consists of a shelflike unit holding a length of square pipe.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020

There, with the help of guides, you make your way up a cliffside to a shelflike clearing.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2012

There was Subbayah, hanging shelflike to the top of the draped stick.

From Time Magazine Archive

Palais Bourbon's tiny shelflike visitors' boxes were crowded; most of the diplomatic corps was there.

From Time Magazine Archive

They came to rest on one of the shelflike circumvoluting rings, some twenty-five feet above the ground.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Bates, Harry