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/ʃɛlv/ · verb
To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves..
to shelve a closet or a library
The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
Before breakfast I employed myself in airing my old bibliomaniacal hobby, entering all the books lately acquired into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked.
Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built ſo ſheluing, that one cannot climbe it / VVithout apparent hazard of his life.
"This lake," said Bruce, "whose barriers drear / Are precipices sharp and sheer, / Yielding no track for goat or deer, / Save the black shelves we tread,[…]"
Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, / Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, / Shadow'd Enceladus; […]
The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things.
From that island's crown / Landward a slope of heather shelveth down / To meet the bar, but all the outer sides, / Sheer walls of porphyry, stem the swinging tides / The Atlantic sendeth, […]
Use shelve when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shelve means To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves..
Common synonyms include defer, remit, table, postpone.
Possible antonyms include deshelve, unshelve.
to shelve a closet or a library
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