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NUTTING
NUT
nut
(verb) gather nuts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
nutting
present participle of nut
(rare) Gaining favor or subjugating oneself.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Thinking very hard or puzzling over something.
Noun
nutting (plural nuttings)
(rare) An outing to gather nuts.
Proper noun
Nutting (plural Nuttings)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Nutting is the 13073rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2349 individuals. Nutting is most common among White (93.23%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Nut"ting, n.
Definition: The act of gathering nuts.
NUT
Nut, n. Etym: [OE. nute, note, AS. hnutu; akin to D. noot, G. nuss, OHG. nuz, Icel. hnot, Sw. nöt, Dan. nöd.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: 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. 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. The tumbler of a gunlock. Knight.
4. (Naut.)
Definition: A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place. 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.
РNut crab (Zo̦l.), any leucosoid crab of the genus Ebalia as, Ebalia tuberosa of Europe.
– Nut grass (Bot.), a plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields.
– 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.
РNut weevil (Zo̦l.), any species of weevils of the genus Balaninus and other allied genera, which in the larval state live in nuts.
Nut, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Nutting.]
Definition: To gather nuts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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