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shellings

shellings

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Noun

shellings

  1. plural of shelling
    • 2009 February 2, Somini Sengupta, “Over 7 Killed by Shelling at a Sri Lanka Hospital”, in New York Times:
      The shellings came as the Sri Lankan military pushed further into a small corner of the island controlled by separatist guerrillas, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , their last redoubt in one of the world’s longest-running civil wars.