Crossword clues for shellfire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shellfire
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As I entered the building I could see that it was damaged, probably by mortars, or shellfire.
▪ He realized when he spoke to them under the continuing shellfire that he was ignorant of their lives.
▪ Most of the Brigade casualties so far have been caused mainly by mortar and shellfire and, of course, the constant sniping.
Wiktionary
shellfire
n. artillery bombardment.
WordNet
shellfire
n. shooting artillery shells
Usage examples of "shellfire".
Specialists like United Defense Batteries provided multi-barreled weapons - calliopes - to sweep the sky clear over defended positions and to accompany attacking columns which would otherwise be wrecked by shellfire.
He had reached that point of emotional exhaustion when the sudden thunder of shellfire or the unwarned banzai charge has lost its power to pump adrenalin into the blood.