sheller
IPA: ʃˈɛɫɝ
noun
- One who, or that which, shells.
- A surname.
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Examples of "sheller" in Sentences
- Frequently, the barn houses the corn crib and a corn sheller.
- In later years, there also was a corn sheller and lumber yard.
- Another sheller told customers in November it couldn't honor its contracts.
- Nowadays a mechanical sheller such as the Universal Nut Sheller may be used.
- It is equipped with the original water powered stone grinder and corn sheller.
- My name is Jock Brandis and I built a nut sheller that goes 50 times faster than doing it by hand.
- At Navarro Pecan, the Texas sheller, Mr. Martin frets that if prices keep rising, Americans will simply make fewer pecan pies.
- 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.
- 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
- "What's changed in our business?" asks second-generation pecan merchant and sheller George Martin, president of Navarro Pecan Co. in Corsicana, Texas.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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