verb

• (transitive)
  "to shelve a closet or a library"
• (transitive)
  "The library needs volunteers to help shelve books."
• (transitive)
  "I love shelving ecstasy!"
• (transitive)

noun

• (archaic) A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.
  ""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,[…]""

verb

• (transitive, British, dialectal) To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
• (intransitive)
  "The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things."
• (intransitive)

noun

• (archaic) Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”).
  "But with a ſlaw ſuddein chauffing ſtorm-bringer Orion, / Spurnt vs too the waters: then ſootherne ſwaſhruter huffling / Flung vs on high ſhelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after."