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starshell

starshell is the alternative form of star shell.

Meaning of star shell

Noun

star shell (plural star shells)

  1. A type of ammunition shell which bursts to release a shower of stars for illuminating enemy positions etc.
    • Twilight deepened, and a flicker of star-shells wavered in the sky beyond Béthune.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 260

Forms of starshell

pluralstarshells

Questions about starshell

What is starshell the alternative form of?
Starshell is the alternative form of star shell.

Words near starshell in the dictionary

  1. starset
  2. starsets
  3. starshade
  4. starshades
  5. starshaped
  6. starshell
  7. starshells
  8. starshina
  9. starshinas
  10. starshine
  11. starship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starshell (page history and authors); star shell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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