shelling
verb
- 1
To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- 2
To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- 3
To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- 4
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- 5
To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
“Nuts shell in falling.”
- 6
To switch to a shell or command line.
- 7
To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- 8
To form a shelling.
noun
- 1
An artillery bombardment.
- 2
The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
- 3
Grain from which the husk has been removed.
- 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
Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.
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