Crossword-Solution: SHELF 5 letters, 174 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Shelf v. i. A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally
at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
Shelf v. i. A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks,
rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
Shelf v. i. A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting
layer of rock.
Shelf v. i. A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel
inside the timberheads.

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SHELF anagram FLESH

We have 174 clues for the answer “SHELF”

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Board for "Harvard Classics.” 1 answer
Book group holder? 1 answer
Book place 1 answer
Book's spot 1 answer
Bookcase board 1 answer
Bookcase component 1 answer
Bookcase feature 1 answer
Bookcase level 1 answer
Bookcase part 1 answer
Books' support 1 answer
Bookstore necessity 1 answer
Bookstore unit 1 answer
Bric-a-brac's place 1 answer
Cabinet component 1 answer
Cabinet section. 1 answer
China supporter 1 answer
Closet catchall 1 answer
Closet necessity 1 answer
Closet nicety 1 answer
Closet section 1 answer
Coastal sandbank 1 answer
Common bookkeeper 1 answer
Cupboard convenience 1 answer
Cupboard feature 1 answer
Disuse metaphor 1 answer
Drawer alternative 1 answer
Elf on the ___ 1 answer
Etagere part. 1 answer
Flat ledge. 1 answer
Floating platform of ice 1 answer
Frequent book setting 1 answer
Geological ledge 1 answer
Harvard Classic holder. 1 answer
Has-been's place 1 answer
Horizontal in a library 1 answer
Hutch unit 1 answer
Inventory item's place 1 answer
Inventory's place 1 answer
Keeper of the books? 1 answer
Knickknack perch 1 answer
Knickknack spot 1 answer
Ledge in a bookcase 1 answer
Library edge 1 answer
Library ledge 1 answer
Mantel, e.g. 1 answer
Mantel, for one 1 answer
Mantelpiece, e.g. 1 answer
On the __ (retired) 1 answer
On the ___ (inactive) 1 answer
On the ___ (not in use) 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHELF (5)

There was a kitchen stove, a table covered with oilcloth, two chairs, a clock, a calendar, a few books on the window-shelf; nothing more.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Upon the mantel-shelf before him was a time-piece, surmounted by a spread eagle, and upon the eagle’s wings was the letter Bathsheba had sent.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea-things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
The narrow shelf of shadow had widened until the floor of the amphitheater was marked off in two halves, one glittering yellow, and one purple.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Then, a new library book is produced: The printed images are rebound by a commercial binder and a new book is returned to the shelf.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Quotes with SHELF (3)

Wait," I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. "Where are you going?""To read?" But I don't want you to. "But I need to go home," I said, my eyes meeting his. "My parents are going to kill me.""Taken care of. You're at Sophie's house." I loved Sophie." So I'm... staying here?""Daniel's covering for you." I loved Daniel." Where's Katie?" I asked, trying to sound casual." Eliza's house." I loved Eliza." And your parents?" I asked." Some charity th…
Michelle Hodkin The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
He said he'd hurt himself against a wall or had fallen down. But there was probably some other reason for the wounded, the bandaged shoulder. With a rather abrupt gesture, reaching for a shelf to bring down some photographs he wanted to look at, the bandage came came undone and a little blood ran. I did it up again, taking my time over the binding; he wasn't in pain and I liked looking at the blood. It was a thing of my love, that blood. When he left, I found, in front of his…
Constantinos P. Cavafis
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free.
Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 173 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).