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Helving vs Shelving - What's the difference?

helving | shelving |

As verbs the difference between helving and shelving

is that helving is while shelving is present participle of shelve.

As a noun shelving is

shelves collectively.

helving

English

Verb

(head)

    • shelving

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Present participle of shelve.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Shelves collectively.
    • There is ample shelving in the basement.
  • (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 […].