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Shelling

noun

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target. Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment. "The shelling went on for hours without pausing"

Shell

verb

(past & past part. shelled; pres. part. shelling)

Use explosives on. Synonym: blast.

Create by using explosives. Synonym: blast.

Fall out of the pod or husk.

Hit the pitches of hard and regularly.

Look for and collect shells by the seashore.

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict. Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish. "We beat the competition" , "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

Remove from its shell or outer covering. "Shell mussels"

Remove the husks from. Synonym: husk.

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"Shelling" Quotes from Famous Books

... public-houses listening to the coarse conversation of their habitues. There was always something new to shock, or interest, the eyes. It was no strange thing to find a woman performing certain domestic avocations before a pot of beer. Some of them brought potatoes and peas, peeling and shelling these in the bar in preference to the hovels which they inhabited. The "pub" was their club and ...

— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild

... Sunday morning, and Ada was shelling peas. The pods split with a sharp crack under her fingers, and the peas rattled into a tin basin. She wore an old skirt, torn and shabby; her bodice was split under the arms, showing the white lining. Her hair lay flat on ...

— Jonah • Louis Stone

... skipper. Bo-o-m! it went, flame and smoke. We could not see the splash from the bridge, nor could they in the foretop. It probably dropped beyond the submarine, which soon we could see—a pretty big fellow she looked with two guns. She had been shelling the ship even while we were running up, and as our first shot boomed out she let go another shell. We expected her to send a couple our way—she probably carried bigger guns than we did—but she did not; she let go another at the steamer. "Maybe at the ...

— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly

... side of the corn-shelling machine was Russ, turning the big wheel, which went round quite easily. On the other side was Laddie, and in his hat he was catching a little stream of yellow shoe buttons that came down through ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's • Laura Lee Hope

... as the Boers started shelling the camp, the battalion fell in on its parade-ground in quarter-column and waited for orders. But when a shell fell just behind the ranks, Major Bird moved it at the double through the camp to a donga which afforded good cover. The men then removed their great-coats, and stayed ...

— The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War - With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland • Cecil Francis Romer and Arthur Edward Mainwaring

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