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shellfire

shellfire noun: artillery bombardment.

Noun

shellfire (usually uncountable, plural shellfires)

  1. (usually) Artillery bombardment.
    • We were pinned down by shellfire. If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out.

Forms of shellfire

pluralshellfires

Origin of shellfire

From shell + fire.

Questions about shellfire

What does shellfire mean?
Shellfire means artillery bombardment.
What part of speech is shellfire?
Shellfire is a noun.
What is the plural of shellfire?
The plural of shellfire is shellfires.

Words near shellfire in the dictionary

  1. Shelley
  2. Shelley Woodhouse
  3. Shelleyan
  4. Shelleyana
  5. Shelleyesque
  6. shellfire
  7. shellfires
  8. shellfish
  9. shellfisher
  10. shellfisheries
  11. shellfisherman

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