Crossword-Solution: SHELLERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Very quickly the neighborhood discovered this propensity of his, and there was a constant stream of farmers who came to offer second-hand buggies, and wind-broken horses, and dried-up cows, and patent hay-rakes and churns and corn-shellers at reduced values; all of which rather tended to reveal to Thyrsis the unlovely aspects of his neighbors, and to weaken his faith in the perfectibility of the race.

Hall, in _The Missionary Herald_, April, 1880.) "They are the corn-shellers." Have seen this sign used by the Arikaras as a tribal designation.

The inventions of 1840-50 enabled the Western farmer to grow larger crops, and harvest time was not so burdensome; corn-shellers and grain-fans shortened the hours of labor for the men.

One of the old cannon type corn shellers, once quite common in Pennsylvania, is used to husk the nuts.

The utmost complication which can occur in his business is a stampede; and few of our Eastern farmers' boys would hesitate to exchange their scythes, hay-cutters, corn-shellers, and mash-tubs for the saddle of his spirited Indian pony and his three days' hunt after estrays.