Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who shells or husks, or a tool or machine used in shelling or husking: as, a corn -sheller; pea - shellers.
- noun Specifically
- noun A machine for stripping the kernels of maize or Indian corn from the cob; a corn-sheller.
- noun One who makes a business of opening bivalves for market; an opener; a shucker; a sticker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, shells
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
shells .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another sheller told customers in November it couldn't honor its contracts.
Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business David Wessel 2011
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At Navarro Pecan, the Texas sheller, Mr. Martin frets that if prices keep rising, Americans will simply make fewer pecan pies.
Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business David Wessel 2011
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Before he left, he promised to send them back a peanut sheller but found upon returning to the U.S. that no such thing existed.
Christine M. Riordan: It's a Matter of Mindset: Ten Principles for Unleashing Critical Thinking Christine M. Riordan 2011
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Before he left, he promised to send them back a peanut sheller but found upon returning to the U.S. that no such thing existed.
Christine M. Riordan: It's a Matter of Mindset: Ten Principles for Unleashing Critical Thinking Christine M. Riordan 2011
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"What's changed in our business?" asks second-generation pecan merchant and sheller George Martin, president of Navarro Pecan Co. in Corsicana, Texas.
Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business David Wessel 2011
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Update 10/23/09 – the answer: A corn sheller, it was used to remove the undesirable shaped kernels of corn from the ends of ears leaving the large flat kernels thought to be the best for planting.
What Is It? Game 112 2009
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One sheller went under last year; its plants were sold to the King Ranch, the big closely held Texas agribusiness that got into the pecan business by acquisition in 2006.
Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business David Wessel 2011
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The museum is full of wonderfully ridiculous inventions from the future such as the pneumatic pencil sharpener, peanut sheller, robotic nurse maid, old razor blade mangler, robotic hitch-hiker's aid, potato peeler, the hydraulic potato peeler, mechanical bottle opener, and the automatic bundle wrapper.
Boing Boing 2007
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Esther. on 01 Jan 2007 at 2: 28 pm sheller and what is the date all the new books are coming out on 10 Jan 2007 at 4: 51 am Jessica
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My name is Jock Brandis and I built a nut sheller that goes 50 times faster than doing it by hand.
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