Not knowing of any machine designed for the purpose, I tried running them through a corn sheller and found it to do the work nicely.
A Hand Corn Sheller A very handy device for shelling corn, and especially popcorn, can be made of a 1-in.
The sheller not only hulled them, but separated the nuts from the hulls, the nuts being carried out through the cob opening and the hulls dropping through the grain spout.
On the other hand, both sheller and manufacturer would be saved the trouble of handling over and over again an unnecessarily large number of shells.
The sheller will naturally, after a few measurements, come to judge by the eye, and it is desirable that the law should be somewhat liberal, rather than too stringent in the allowance for mistakes.
They were never allowed to touch the sheller unless some older person was around, for little fingers could get easily nipped in the cog wheels.
Don't you and Meg want to come and help me see if this sheller is going to work?
The dinner boiled and bubbled, and the stove was working as actively in the kitchen as the corn-sheller was doing in the barnyard, when Nathan set Jack in the doorway and followed him in.
The corn-sheller is a three horse-power, with fan and sacker attached.
Now, then, I am hollering on one hand for an increase in prices of raw material, and as a sheller I am hollering on the other hand to get the prices down.
It may give you a little different idea of what the sheller is up against in the salvaging of black walnut kernels.
Back in those same times, I used to get money out of hauling black walnuts to an old corn sheller and having people who didn't have an interest in the corn sheller sell them for 50 cents a bushel.
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.
I have never heard of this Yankee notion, but I doubt not that one pea-sheller would shell all the peas required by all the guests of all the hotels in town, if they fed the inmates on nothing but pea soup!
He is one of those who carry their pea-sheller with them, or find it at every turn.
Various methods of hulling other than by the corn sheller are in use.
Hulling The ordinary corn sheller on the farm is undoubtedly the most practicable instrument for removing the hulls, generally available at this time.
After the nuts have come from the sheller they may be handled by shovels or by forks with tines close together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
