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shelvings

shelvings is the plural of shelving.

Meaning of shelving

Noun

shelving (countable and uncountable, plural shelvings)

  1. Shelves collectively.
    • a shelving unit
  2. (in plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
    • So, creaking and creaking, and the shelvins skirling under the weight of their load, they passed that danger point, the carts plodded into motion again […]1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 47
  3. (archaic) A sloping surface.
    • […] the way was all along set so full of Snares, Traps, Gins, and Nets here, and so full of Pits, Pitfalls, deep holes and shelvings down there, that had it now been dark […] had he had a thousand souls, they had in reason been cast away;1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, page 82
    Synonyms:
    declivity, slope

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Questions about shelvings

What is shelvings the plural of?
Shelvings is the plural of shelving.

Words near shelvings in the dictionary

  1. shelveth
  2. Shelvey
  3. Shelvin
  4. shelving
  5. shelvingly
  6. shelvings
  7. Shelvins
  8. shelvy
  9. Shelwick
  10. Shelyak
  11. Shem

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