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NUTTINGS
Noun
nuttings
plural of nutting
Anagrams
• stunting
Proper noun
Nuttings
plural of Nutting
Anagrams
• stunting
Source: Wiktionary
NUTTING
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.
– Nut crab (Zoöl.), 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.
– Nut weevil (Zoöl.), 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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