Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of shelling
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.
2009 February 2, Somini Sengupta, “Over 7 Killed by Shelling at a Sri Lanka Hospital”, in New York Times
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