1871 June 545/1 The centre of the table is occupied by a large dish with an elegant pyramid of a peck or so of ready shelled shrimps.
1958 23 May 281/2 Bud Floyd and his wife Debbie tortured in their antiseptic, ready-shelled, air-conditioned inferno.
2007 (Nexis) 3 Jan. 13 Supermarket shoppers now have the luxury of buying ready-shelled peas from Kenya in the bleak midwinter.