'Nut' definitions:

Definition of 'nut'

From: WordNet
noun
Usually large hard-shelled seed
noun
Egyptian goddess of the sky
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A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
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Half the width of an em [syn: en, nut]
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A whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball]
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Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie" [syn: addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky]
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One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away" [syn: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg]
verb
Gather nuts

Definition of 'Nut'

From: GCIDE
  • Nut \Nut\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Nutting.] To gather nuts. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Nut'

From: GCIDE
  • Nut \Nut\ (n[u^]t), n. [OE. nute, note, AS. hnutu; akin to D. noot, G. nuss, OHG. nuz, Icel. hnot, Sw. n["o]t, Dan. n["o]d.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. (Bot.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of 1st Bolt. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The tumbler of a gunlock. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Naut.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. pl. Testicles. [vulgar slang] [PJC]
  • Check nut, Jam nut, Lock nut, a nut which is screwed up tightly against another nut on the same bolt or screw, in order to prevent accidental unscrewing of the first nut.
  • Nut buoy. See under Buoy.
  • Nut coal, screened coal of a size smaller than stove coal and larger than pea coal; -- called also chestnut coal.
  • Nut crab (Zool.), any leucosoid crab of the genus Ebalia as, Ebalia tuberosa of Europe.
  • Nut grass (Bot.), See nut grass in the vocabulary.
  • Nut lock, a device, as a metal plate bent up at the corners, to prevent a nut from becoming unscrewed, as by jarring.
  • Nut pine. (Bot.) See under Pine.
  • Nut rush (Bot.), a genus of cyperaceous plants (Scleria) having a hard bony achene. Several species are found in the United States and many more in tropical regions.
  • Nut tree, a tree that bears nuts.
  • Nut weevil (Zool.), any species of weevils of the genus Balaninus and other allied genera, which in the larval state live in nuts. [1913 Webster]

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