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Shelfy vs Sheafy - What's the difference?

shelfy | sheafy |

As adjectives the difference between shelfy and sheafy

is that shelfy is abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows while sheafy is pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.

shelfy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
    • A shelfy coast. — Dryden.
  • (obsolete) Full of strata of rock.
    • The tillable fields are in some places so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. — Carew.

    Synonyms

    * shelvy (Webster 1913)

    sheafy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.
    • (Webster 1913)