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say it: SHEL-ing
shelling is a noun meaning "the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target". It is pronounced /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/ — SHEL-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
“they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops”
“the shelling went on for hours without pausing”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shelling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.