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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing" [syn: barrage , barrage fire , battery , bombardment ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Soon after dawn there was another round of heavy shelling in the eastern part of the city. ▪ The shelling of the town continued well into the night. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Five days and four nights subjected to shelling ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shelling may refer to: Shell (projectile) , explosive used in wars Searching for seashells Shelling (topology) Wheelset deformation , that occur when the wheel has been worn out
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An artillery bombardment 2 The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc. 3 (context uncountable English) grain from which the husk has been removed 4 (context topology English) (rfdef lang=en topic=topology) vb. (present participle of shell English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shell \Shell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shelled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shelling .] To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters. To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, ...
Usage examples of shelling.
Except for shelling, we were left unmolested during the night and next morning, which gave us the opportunity of constructing sangars, making tracks for the pack transport animals, and generally making ourselves more comfortable.
Some people claim that kangaroos and emus still survived, freed from their hutches by the shelling, and could be seen wandering free in the city late at night.
Like thousands of other Palestinian and Lebanese families, this extended clan had been driven out of the Palestinian refugee camps and neighborhoods on the southern edge of Beirut by merciless Israeli bombing and shelling and were desperately looking for empty apartments closer to the heart of West Beirut, where thefighting had yet to encroach.
And I had been, both before and after the terrible shelling in 1991 from the Serbian and Montenegrin forces during the Balkan conflict.
One other time I know of information was given undetected which resulted in the shelling of a road at a time when a convoy of motors was about to pass.
Emmet Dalton, a militant Treatyite, might have given the actual orders for the shelling, but the instructions had to have come from Michael Collins.
When the Boers had been shelling the town for some weeks the lighthearted Colonel sent out to say that if they went on any longer he should be compelled to regard it as equivalent to a declaration of war.
Yet, ere the last string had twanged, he would be down on his four bones among the stricken, and have them all houseled and shriven, as quick as shelling peas.
It was a lot of stuff - I took it as a back-handed compliment that the proprietor was shelling out so much to get me sent down.
With luck he'd have an hour after he dropped off the stones on Captiva to go shelling on the falling tide and still make his flight out of Fort Myers to Los Angeles.
White House cartes blanches or not, someone was shelling out a quarter of a million dollars for this trip.
I feel sorry for the guy: here he is, shelling out good money for me to find his dog, and instead I crack a dope ring on his time.
Occasionally, if the verbal shelling from the front bench was heavy, the attorneys had been known to drop an electronic stylus behind the desk, duck down in order to retrieve it, and gain a brief respite from the barrage.
The shelling from the Golan Heights of the kibbutzim in the Huleh Valley grew more intense than ever.
Sally sat at the table in the breakfast nook, shelling lima beans for Ma Fanny, who was in the kitchen, fixing dinner.