shelling

/หˆสƒษ›lษชล‹/

IPA: /SH EH1 L IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To remove the outer covering or shell of something.

  2. 2

    To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.

  3. 3

    To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).

  4. 4

    To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

  5. 5

    To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.

    โ€œNuts shell in falling.โ€

  6. 6

    To switch to a shell or command line.

  7. 7

    To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).

  8. 8

    To form a shelling.

noun
  1. 1

    An artillery bombardment.

  2. 2

    The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.

  3. 3

    Grain from which the husk has been removed.

  4. 4

    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)

  5. 5

    Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shell, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shelling