shelling order of a polytope

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I'm reading an article concerning the reconstruction of "relatively simple" polytopes from their skeletons and fall on this:

"Let $P$ denote a $d$-polytope and let $F_1,\dots,F_s$ be a shelling order of it's polar $P^*$."

What does this mean? On wikipedia I found the definition of shelling for a simplicial complex but not all polytopes are simplicial complexes.

Thanks for any help.