Usually means: Bombardment with artillery or missiles.
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  1. shelling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shelling: Merriam-Webster
  3. shelling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shelling: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shelling, shelling: Wordnik
  6. shelling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shelling: Wiktionary
  8. shelling: Dictionary.com
  9. shelling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Shelling (topology), Shelling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Shelling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. shelling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. shelling: Rhymezone
  14. Shelling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. shelling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. shelling: FreeDictionary.org
  17. shelling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. shelling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shelling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shelling: Idioms

(Note: See shell as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An artillery bombardment.
noun:  The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
noun:  (uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed.
noun:  (topology) 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)
noun:  Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.

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