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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)

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shell +‎ -er

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