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1.Shallow cracks at closely spaced but irregular intervals on the surface of mortar or concrete.

2. Small cracks in a film of paint or varnish which do not completely penetrate to the substrate or the previous coat. The cracks are in a pattern roughly similar to a checkerboard.

3. In plastering, in a lime finish coat, fine spider-web cracks or fissures; usually caused by insufficient troweling or undergauging.

4. See check.

5. Very small cracks in a flat glass surface, usually along an edge.

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No references found			Even while the passengers were crowding the starboard rail and scrambling into the few boats left to us, the submarine commenced shelling the ship. The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context As we sailed in to Langa-Langa, the British cruiser, the Cambrian, steamed out from the shelling of a village. Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context We boys were all shelling peas, but the story, as it went on, rapt us from the poor employ, and whatever our fingers were doing, our spirits were away in that strange land of adventures and mishaps, where the fevered life of the knight truly without fear and without reproach burned itself out. My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context			shell shock shell star shell still shell structure shell variable shell vaulting shell-and-tube exchanger shell-destroying tracer shell-form transformer shell-headed shell-headed cupboard shell-keep shell-type transformer Shellac shellac varnish shellac wax shellac wheel shellcode Sheller, Aleksandr Sheller, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Shelley Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe shellfish Shellfish Gathering shelling shelly shelly facies shelly pahoehoe Shelmovanie Shelomi Shelomith Shelon Shelon, Battle of the 1471 Shelta Shelter shelter belt shelter cave shelter deck Shelter Island Shelter Island State Marine Park shelter porosity Shelter-Deck Ship shelterbelt Shelterbelt for Fields Shelterbelts sheltered Sheltered Ground shelterwood method Shelton Shelton loader			Shelley's rule Shelley's rule Shelley, Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley, Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Bysshe shellfire shellfish shellfish shellfish Shellfish Association of Great Britain Shellfish Bed Restoration Program Shellfish Gathering Shellfish poisoning Shellfish poisoning Shellfish poisoning Shellfish Promotion and Tasting Shellfish toxins shellfisheries shellfishery shellfishes shellfishes shellfishes shellfishing shellfishing shellfishing shellflower shellgrit shelling shelling out shelling out shelling out shelling out shelling report shelling report Shellite Shellite Shellite Shellmound Shellmound shellpad shellproof shells shells shells shells shells shells out shells out shells out shells out Shellscrap File shellshocked shellsuit Shellwork Shelly Shelly Shelly Shelly

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