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Shelling vs Shelving - What's the difference?

shelling | shelving |

As verbs the difference between shelling and shelving

is that shelling is while shelving is present participle of shelve.

As nouns the difference between shelling and shelving

is that shelling is an artillery bombardment while shelving is shelves collectively.

shelling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • An artillery bombardment
  • The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
  • (uncountable) grain from which the husk has been removed
  • (topology)

    • shelving

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Present participle of shelve.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Shelves collectively.
    • There is ample shelving in the basement.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 47:
    • So, creaking and creaking, and the shelvins skirling under the weight of their load, they passed that danger point, the carts plodded into motion again […].