What is the meaning of SHELF. Phrases containing SHELF
See meanings and uses of SHELF!Slangs & AI meanings
Shelf is British slang for the top of a fat woman's backside. Shelf is Australian slang for to inform upon; a police informer.
- This is what you would call crooked. Like when you put a shelf up and it isn't straight we would say it is all skew-whiff.
on a cowboy boot, where the top of the heel is positioned to stick out to form a shelf on which the spur rests..
Single cigarettes sold by shopkeepers to schoolchildren (and presumably to anyone else who couldn't afford 1.50 for a pack of Embassy). Normally kept in a jar or glass on the shelf by the ciggies. These were sold in blatant disregard of the law prohibiting the sale of cigs to the under-16s.
On The Scene -or- On The Spot -or- Off The Shelf
A yuppie who attempts to appear down with the working class by making a point of ordering only bottom shelf liquor and cheap beer.
Someone whose tastes improve from bottom to top shelf when someone offers to buy them a drink.
This is what you would call crooked. Like when you put a shelf up and it isn't straight we would say it is all skew-whiff.
SHELF
SHELF
SHELF
SHELF
SHELF
SHELF
SHELF
a.
Full of strata of rock.
v. t.
To remove from, or as from, a shelf.
n.
A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
p. p.
A fixed seat or shelf.
v. i.
A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
n.
A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
v. t.
To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
n.
A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.
n.
The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.
v. i.
A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
v. t.
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.
n.
An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
n.
Alt. of Shilfa
n.
An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
v.
A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.
a.
Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
v. i.
A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
v. t.
To set upright; to cause to stand; as, to stand a book on the shelf; to stand a man on his feet.
v. i.
A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
pl.
of Shelf
SHELF
SHELF
SHELF