Nut
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.
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.
The tumbler of a gunlock.
A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
To gather nuts.
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Nut Quotations
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Charles Spurgeon
I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
Mike Tyson
I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
Mike Tyson
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
David Icke
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
Jeremy Rifkin
I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
George H. W. Bush
Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
Nicolas Cage
I'm a history nut.
Billy Joel
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Dean Koontz
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.
Howard Stern
Nut Translations
nut in Dutch is moer
nut in Portuguese is noz, porca
nut in Spanish is tuerca, nuez
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