shellfire
/shel-fahyuhr/US // ˈʃɛlˌfaɪər //UK // (ˈʃɛlˌfaɪə) //
炮火,炮击,炮轰,炮火攻击
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Military.
- : the firing of explosive shells or projectiles.
Examples
That was before they knew the exact meaning of shellfire well.
These men had already seen what shellfire could do to knock the beauty out of old houses and quiet streets.
They had been employed cutting trees, and had been under our own shellfire.
The railways were choked with military transport or destroyed by shellfire.
Shellfire was being concentrated on the airstrips, striving to block them, plow them up with craters.
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