shelling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of shell

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An artillery bombardment.
2. (countable, uncountable)The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
3. (uncountable)Grain from which the husk has been removed.
4. (countable, uncountable)An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
5. (countable, uncountable)Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.