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shellings

shellings is the plural of shelling.

Meaning of shelling

Noun

shelling (countable and uncountable, plural shellings)

  1. An artillery bombardment.
  2. The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
  3. (uncountable) 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.

Questions about shellings

What is shellings the plural of?
Shellings is the plural of shelling.

Words near shellings in the dictionary

  1. shellika pooka
  2. shellika pookas
  3. shelliness
  4. shelling
  5. shelling out
  6. shellings
  7. shellless
  8. shelllike
  9. Shellman
  10. Shellmans
  11. shellmound

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