NUT, n. [It See ms to be allied to knot, a bunch or hard lump.]
1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs, consisting of a hard shell inclosing a kernel. A nut is properly the pericarp of the fruit. Various kinds of nuts are distinguished; as walnut, chestnut, hazlenut, butternut.
2. In mechanics, a small cylinder or other body, with teeth or projections corresponding with the teeth or grooves of a wheel.
3. The projection near the eye of an anchor.
NUT, v.t. To gather nuts.
