| 单词 | corn-sheller |
| 释义 | > as lemmascorn-sheller corn-sheller n. U.S. a machine for removing the grains from the ear or cob of Indian corn. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > shelling maize > machine corn-sheller1813 1813 in Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for Promoting Agric. (1814) III. 250 (caption) Description of the Corn sheller..One bushel of corn in the ears, may with ease be shelled in five minutes. 1825 Boston Monthly Mag. I. 25 A patent corn-sheller..may be of more service to the community, than all the poems of Byron or the novels of Scott. 1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 169 Corn-shellers, to shell twenty to fifty bushels per hour. 1851 Fredericksburg (Va.) News 21 Mar. Corn Shellers—Both Hand and Horse Power. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table i. 9 A thing..that turns out results like a corn-sheller. < as lemmas |
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