shelf
noun
a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
shelflike
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a word derived from
shelf.
Example Sentences
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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 Harry Bates
