tank shell

1. 1.

   a shell fired by the cannon on a tank

   Broadershell

Questions about tank shell

What does tank shell mean?

tank shell means "a shell fired by the cannon on a tank".

Is tank shell a common word?

tank 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.