shellfire

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Artillery bombardment.

   We were pinned down by shellfire. If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out.

Similar words

bombardment fire shelling bombarding cannonading bombard barrage cannonade firebombing superbombardment

Often followed by

and from in was on or to that had