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shellfire
/ ˈʃɛlˌfaɪə /
noun
- the firing of artillery shells
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shellfire1
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Example Sentences
That was before they knew the exact meaning of shellfire well.
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These men had already seen what shellfire could do to knock the beauty out of old houses and quiet streets.
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They had been employed cutting trees, and had been under our own shellfire.
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The railways were choked with military transport or destroyed by shellfire.
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Shellfire was being concentrated on the airstrips, striving to block them, plow them up with craters.
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