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shelve

US/ʃɛlv/ uncommon archaic obsolete slang uk

verb

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place on a shelve

  • “shelve books”

Origin

From Late Middle English shelven (“to separate (someone or something) from another thing, keep away”); further etymology uncertain, possibly: * from shelf, shelfe (“shelf; cabinet, cupboard; grassy bank”) (though this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary); or * related to West Frisian skelf (“not level or straight, oblique”).

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