sheller
she ler
- n a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters)
- Science has given housewives the mechanical dishwasher, the tireless cooker, the cherry stoner, the self-agitating cocktail shaker, the cast-iron pea sheller.
- Like other Americans, he was savaged by soaring interest rates; payments on a peanut sheller, which are pegged at 1 percentage points above the prime rate (now about 20%), caused .
- He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country.