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When the little old woman with a face like a nut was alive she could see the whole tack at one sweep of the eye from the rowan at the door, on the left up to the plateau where five burns were born, on the right to the peak of Drimfern.

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  1. noun An indehiscent, hard-shelled, one-loculated, one-seeded fruit, such as an acorn or hazelnut.
  2. noun A seed borne within a fruit having a hard shell, as in the peanut, almond, or walnut.
  3. noun The kernel of any of these.
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  • With a small quantity of the latter they strew the leaf; a very small piece of the nut is added, and the whole is made into a little packet, which they put into their mouth. —  The Story of Ida Pfeiffer
  • The more news that comes out about McSnake, chills me to the bone, that his nut is actually running for the office of President. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Prices for the nut are about $1 per pound, down from about $2 a year ago and about 350 million pounds of almonds will be held over to the 2009 season in hopes the price will rise, the trade group said.
  • SACRAMENTO - 01 / 12 / 09 - A decrease in international demand and a bumper crop have combined to reduce by half the price almond growers are receiving for this season's crop; prices for the nut are about $1 per pound, down from about $2 a year ago, says the California Almond Board.
  • I am sorry that the families of those police officers lost thier loved ones, but a nut is a nut and they will find a way.
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English nute, from Old English hnutu.

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  1. from Middle English nutte, nute, note, from Anglo-Saxon hnutu = Middle Dutch not, Dutch noot = Middle Low German not, note, Low German nut, nutt, nude = Old High German Middle High German nuz, German nuss = Icelandic hnot = Swedish nöt = Danish nöd (not recorded in Gothic (Moesogothic)); root unknown. Not connected with L. nux (nuc-), nut, later English nucleus, etc. Cf. Gaelic cnō, cnū, a nut.
  2. from nut, n.
 

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