Definition of "shelflike" [shelflike]

• Resembling a shelf or some aspect of one. (adjective)

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• "Inside—or, rather, outside—the summerhouse was the kind of place Rebecca would find enchanting, with its burbling fountain, decorative brickwork, and stone chairs protected from the elements by shelflike orange tile roofs."
• "Lying on my metal shelflike bunk, I hear hollow echoes of steel doors clanging and distant cries of pain or desperation."
• "The bark that conceals it has a charred, shelflike appearance."