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nut
nut is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 5 · 13 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The tumbler of a gunlock.
- 4noun
A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- 5intransitive verb
To gather nuts.
- 6noun
a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- 7noun
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
"she kicked him in the balls and got away"
- 8noun
Egyptian goddess of the sky
- 9noun
someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
"a golf addict"
"a car nut"
- 10noun
a whimsically eccentric person
- 11noun
usually large hard-shelled seed
- 12noun
half the width of an em
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- 13verb
gather nuts
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