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sheller|ˈʃɛlə(r)|
[f. shell v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who shells peas, etc.; spec. one whose occupation it is to open bivalves.
1694Motteux Rabelais v. Prol. A 7, Clever Shellers of Beans. 1832Scoreby Farm Rep. 10 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, For these long oats, the ‘shellers’, who buy the largest quantities to convert into oatmeal, will give as much per stone, as they will for the short ones. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 43 Some fastidious persons might perhaps object that the fingers of the shellers [of the peas] are some⁓what coarse. 1887Goode, etc., Fisheries U.S. v. II. 593 The clams are thoroughly washed before they are given over to the knives of the ‘shellers’, or ‘openers’.
b. A machine for rasping or rubbing the grain from the cob.
1859Rep. Comm. Patents 1858 (U.S.) I. 361 The nature of this invention relates..to the form and arrangements of the shellers. 1875Knight Dict. Mech.
2. A contrivance for providing an object with a shell or coating.
1883Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Sept. 12/1 After this it has only to go into the sheller, where it gets its last coat in the shape of a plaster of Paris shell. |