shelving

shelving (comparative more shelving, superlative most shelving)

1. sloping steeply

shelving

1. present participle of shelve

shelving (countable and uncountable, plural shelvings)

1. Shelves collectively.

   There is ample shelving in the basement.

2. (chiefly in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 47:

     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 […]

3. (rare) The bank of a river etc.