(transitive) To place on a shelf. / (transitive) To set aside; to quit or postpone. / To furnish with shelves. / (slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion. / (Wales, slang) To have sex with.

A rocky ledge or shelf.

plural of shelf

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shelve

simple past tense and past participle of shelve

(not comparable) Of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves. / Postponed or put aside indefinitely.

A hamlet in Worthen with Shelve parish, western Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3399).

present participle of shelve

Shelves collectively. / (chiefly in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon. / (rare) The bank of a river etc.

sloping steeply