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sheller

/shel-er/US // ˈʃɛl ər //

炮手,炮击者,炮制者,炮击手

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, device, machine, etc., that shells something, as peas or clams.
    • : a person who collects seashells.

Examples

  • As Wu traveled to rural areas trying to sell her maize sheller and became fluent in Swahili, she learned that solar-powered products were in high demand in these communities.

  • He received commissions of every character, from the purchase of a corn sheller to the matching of a blue ribbon.

  • In fact, he was fairly famous in his county as the inventor of a hemp-brake, a clover-sheller, a bellows and threshing machine.

  • I remember one of his complaints was in regard to a pea-sheller which he had seen at work in one of our monster hotels.

  • He was a man of powerful body and unusual endurance; the sort of man you could attach to a corn-sheller as you would an engine.

  • We run it with a two-hole corn sheller, a set of 16-inch burr stones, and an elevator.