Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of removing the shell.
- noun The act of bombarding a place.
- noun A commercial name for groats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Groats; hulled oats.
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- verb Present participle of
shell . - noun An
artillery bombardment - noun The
removal of theshell from a nut, pea etc. - noun uncountable
grain from which thehusk has been removed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
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Examples
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Obama and the far-left nuts just don't seem to get it that most Americans aren't interested in shelling out a trillion bucks a year on something 80% of the population doesn't think is that big a problem.
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Army sources said that the shelling is “a legitimate step to remove am immediate threat to Israel from Gaza”, Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported.
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Mary managed to get her mother and children to safety at the home of a friend named Church, despite heavy shelling from the French, which ...
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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I would assume the IDF warned them, probably repeatedly, that Hezbollah had taken up position around them and that they would begin shelling to dislodge them.
Think Progress » Rice abandons talks, shuttles back to the United States. 2006
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Hopefully we will not be repeating this excercise again - shelling out millions of tax dollars to essentially accomplish nothing of lasting significance.
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SATURDAY, JULY 6: The Rockies concede that they made a huge mistake in shelling out $175.3 million to starters Mike Hampton and Denny Neagle.
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We experienced a heavy shelling from the German artillery.
In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France Edward Alva Trueblood
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The ordeal of Paris has been renewed by shelling from the German long-distance gun, the last and most sensational of German surprise-packets.
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The vessels which had been engaged in shelling the woods previous to the landing of the troops then moved in the direction of
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The Federals were engaged up to the 15th ult. in shelling Fort Moultrie from Morris
hernesheir commented on the word shelling
I was shelling pecans today, to grind up and put in an apple/pear spice cake and creamed cheese rolade.
March 5, 2011
qms commented on the word shelling
See the extended discussion of "shelling" as a military punishment in the comments under rigadoon.
September 10, 2014