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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Nut \Nut\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Nutted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nutting}.] To gather nuts. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: nut n 1: usually large hard-shelled seed 2: Egyptian goddess of the sky 3: a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt 4: half the width of an em [syn: {en}, {nut}] 5: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: {crackpot}, {crank}, {nut}, {nut case}, {fruitcake}, {screwball}] 6: 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}] 7: 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}] v 1: gather nuts From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Nut /nuːt/ furrow; groove; notch From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: nut /nɵt/ advantage; benefit