shelling

2 definitions • 4 examples

the act of firing shells (= containers full of explosives) at something:

Shelling of enemy lines continued all day.

The shelling of some villages was so commonplace that people no longer lived there.

the act of removing the hard outer covering of something, especially nuts, eggs, or some vegetables:

The shelling of peanuts and corn was always done for days and usually lasted long into the nights.

Shelling eggs is not something you can speed up with your food processor.