shelve

To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.

to shelve a closet or a library

To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.

The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.

Before breakfast I employed myself in airing my old bibliomaniacal hobby, entering all the books lately acquired into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked.

To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.

I love shelving ecstasy!

I had a funny conversation with my dad last night about shelving. It's when you shelve a pill up your bum. It was a lovely dinner conversation. […] My parents were like, in our generation we didn't snort pills, we used to drop them because it's so bad to snort. I was like, Yeah, what about shelving? They were like What? I was, Oh no, I thought you'd know.

To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.

To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.

They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.

[T]he Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business.

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,[…]"

Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, / Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, / Shadow'd Enceladus; […]

To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.

Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.

The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things.

From that island's crown / Landward a slope of heather shelveth down / To meet the bar, but all the outer sides, / Sheer walls of porphyry, stem the swinging tides / The Atlantic sendeth, […]

To be in an inclined or sloping position.