shelling

Meaning

Verb

present participle and gerund of shell

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An artillery bombardment.
2. (countable, uncountable) The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
3. (uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed.
4. (countable, uncountable) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
5. (countable, uncountable) Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.

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shell

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Synonyms

bombardment

peeling

barrage

hulling

husking

scaling

skinning

battery

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bombarding

artillery fire

fire

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barrage fire

firing

bombing

zone fire

blitz

bombings

cannonade

cleaning

clean-up

decorticate

drumfire

gunfire

hull

stripping

shell fire

decortication of shells

mail bombing

Translations

bombardement

bombardeo

bombardeio

bombardamento

bombardement

قصف

Beschuss

beschieting

sgusciatura

descascamento

cannoneggiamento

Bombardement

décorticage

Enthülsen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃɛlɪŋ/