artillery shell

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   a shell fired by artillery

   Broadershell

Questions about artillery shell

What does artillery shell mean?

artillery shell means "a shell fired by artillery".

Is artillery shell a common word?

artillery shell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.