shelfback

noun — 2 senses

shelfback

noun

Etymology From shelf + back.

1

The vertical surface forming the back of a shelf.

She came home later that day from Mrs. Rafferty's with a blue platter, which she placed standing up against the shelfback in the linen closet.2001, Regina McBride, The Nature of Water and Air, page 62:

2

The spine of a book.

There was the man who collected any old volumes on etymology. There was a collector of books with gilded Victorian shelfbacks.1934, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 153, page 71:

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