Thesaurus: nut

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1. n. 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.
2. n. 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 lst Bolt.
3. n. The tumbler of a gunlock.
4. n. A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
5. v. i. To gather nuts.
6. n. usually large hard-shelled seed
7. n. a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
8. n. half the width of an em
9. n. a whimsically eccentric person
10. n. someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
11. n. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
12. v. gather nuts