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verb

Shell v. t. (past & past part. shelled; pres. part. shelling)

To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.

To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.

To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.

To shell out, to distribute freely; to bring out or pay, as money. (Colloq.)

Shell v. i.

To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.

To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

adjective

Shelled adj. (Zool.) Having a shell.

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Etymology of 'Shelled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shelled" Quotes from Famous Books

... holes, Mac being just as keen to locate them as Hamilton was to secure them. They cannot see well during the day, and seem to have almost lost the use of their feet. They lay two small, white, thin-shelled eggs at the end of their burrow; and in certain parts of the island, where the burrows are numerous, the sound made by hundreds of them at once, during the nesting season, somewhat resembles that made by a high-power Marconi wireless ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... beetles have such beautifully coloured, hard-shelled coats upon their backs that they are often set in pins and necklaces like precious stones. Once upon a time, years and years ago, they had ordinary plain brown coats. This is how it happened that the Brazilian beetle earned ...

— Fairy Tales from Brazil - How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore • Elsie Spicer Eells

... women to be pitied, child," said Aunt Jane, dropping a handful of shelled beans into my pan with a cheerful clatter, "but, of all things, deliver me from livin' with a man that has to have hot bread three times a day. Milly Amos used to say that when she died she wanted a ...

— Aunt Jane of Kentucky • Eliza Calvert Hall

... have heard that Duquesne had avenged his African sufferings. In the autumn of 1681 the Huguenot Admiral shelled Algiers from bomb-ketches, then used for the first time. The Dey was forced to surrender. His lively conquerors treated him with the honors of wit as well as of war. They made a mot for him, of the kind they get up so cleverly in Paris. When the Turk is told how much it had ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various

... and under these trees Is buried the body of Solomon Pease. But here in this hole lies only his pod His soul is shelled out and gone ...

— Quaint Epitaphs • Various

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