unshell (unshel)

t. To divest of the shell; take out of a shell; hatch; hence, to give birth to; also, to release. Of him and none but him... have I took, sent, or come in the wind of, that ever Yarmouth unshelled or ingendred. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., vi. 157). ( Davies .) There (behind a nailed-up chimney-board] I remained till half-past seven the next morning, when the housemaid's sweetheart, who was a carpenter, unshelled me. Dickens , Sketches, Watkins Tottle.