Sheller (Noun)
Meaning
A worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The busy sheller sat at her workstation, quickly and efficiently removing the shells from the oysters for the evening's seafood buffet.
- After working as a sheller on the oyster farm for years, John was an expert at opening the toughest shells.
- She carefully watched as the old man demonstrated his technique for removing the delicate shells as a pea sheller.
- Many factory workers began as shellers, learning to extract the nuts from their shells by hand before moving on to more specialized jobs.
- By the time the new automated oyster sheller was installed, many workers in the processing plant had been shelling oysters by hand for over 20 years.