Shellfire

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Artillery bombardment. uncountable, usually

    "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."

  2. 2
    shooting artillery shells wordnet

Synonyms

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antiaircraft firecross firecurtain firedirect firedry firefile fire

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From shell + fire.

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