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1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing, page 95:
As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.
1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring .
(archaic) The glans(structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
1665, Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice, page 54:
[...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]
1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences:
GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis.
1864, Edward Cox, Cox's Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest:
In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and the nut of the penis.
1965, Peter Fryer, The Birth Controllers, page 23:
In this work the great Italian anatomist described a linen sheath which he claimed to have invented. Made to fit the glans, or nut of the penis, it was worn for protection against venereal disease.
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As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose."
(music,lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
(typographyslang)En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
(climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts were used for this purpose.)
2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing, page 88:
When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.
(poker,attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts(“the best possible hand available”).
Hungarian: dió(hu)(walnut in particular and an element in the name of some other nuts), dióféle(literally: ’walnut-like’, the family of this fruit), dió-, mogyoró- és gesztenyeféle(walnuts, hazelnuts/peanuts, chestnuts, and related fruits)
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1575, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Five anonymous plays, Early English Dramatists, volume Fourth Series, London: William How for Richard Ihones, page 171:
I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.
1847, Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress:
[…] the huge country fellow […] leapt forth from the underwood, exclaiming "That is not allowed, gentlemen! That is not allowed! Nobody is allowed to nut here; I must take your names to Sir John!"
1978, Edwin Way Teale, A walk through the year, Dodd, Mead, →ISBN, page 238:
1999, Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England:
One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.
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^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “nux”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 420