a person employed to shell peas or to open oyster shells
2.
a device used to put a coating or shell on something
3.
someone who collects seashells
sheller in American English
(ˈʃɛlər)
noun
a collector of seashells
sheller in American English
(ˈʃelər)
noun
1.
a person, device, machine, etc., that shells something, as peas or clams
2.
a person who collects seashells
Word origin
[1685–95; shell + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1685–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: accumulator, align, blowhole, overlap, protectorate-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'sheller' in a sentence
sheller
The nail-down wood and mechanical sheller were used for shelling the maize.
O.S. DHARMAPUTRA 1997, 'THE EFFECTS OF DRYING AND SHELLING ON ASPERGILLUS FLAWS INFECTION AND AFLATOXIN PRODUCTIONOF MAIZE', Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biologyhttp://journal.biotrop.org/index.php/biotropia/article/view/131/102. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)