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  • 1Nut (fruit) — Hazelnuts from the Common Hazel Chestnuts …

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  • 2nut — nut1 S3 [nʌt] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(food)¦ 2¦(tool)¦ 3¦(crazy person)¦ 4 golf/opera etc nut 5¦(sex organ)¦ 6 the nuts and bolts of something 7 tough/hard nut 8 a hard/tough nut to crack 9 be off your nut …

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  • 3crack — I [[t]kræ̱k[/t]] VERB USES ♦♦♦ cracks, cracking, cracked 1) V ERG If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface. A gas main had cracked under my neighbour s garage and gas had… …

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  • 4Crack My Nut — Studio album by Claw Boys Claw Released 1987 (1987) …

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  • 5crack — 1 verb 1 BREAK (I, T) to break or make something break so that it gets one or more lines on its surface: Don t put that delicate china in the dishwasher it may crack. | She fell off her bike and cracked a bone in her leg. 2 LOUD SOUND (I, T) to… …

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  • 6Nut (climbing) — For other uses, see Nut (disambiguation). A set of nuts and a nut removal tool. In rock climbing, a nut (or chock or chockstone) is a metal wedge threaded on a wire, used for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock. Quickdraws are… …

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  • 7Universal Nut Sheller — The Universal Nut sheller in Uganda, 2005 The Universal Nut Sheller (UNS; formerly called the Malian Peanut Sheller) is a simple hand operated machine based on a Bulgarian Peanut sheller, capable of shelling 50 kilograms (110 lb) of raw, sun …

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  • 8Apfel — In den sauren Apfel beißen (müssen): sich zu etwas Unangenehmen entschließen, etwas Unangenehmes auf sich nehmen (müssen). Die Redensart ist nicht weiter erklärungsbedürftig: saure Äpfel ißt niemand gern; sie werden deshalb bildlich für jedes… …

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  • 9difficulty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) That which is hard to overcome Nouns 1. difficulty, hardness, impracticability, hard work, uphill work, hurdle; hard task, Herculean task, large order, hard row to hoe; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor; …

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  • 10Difficulty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Difficulty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 difficulty difficulty Sgm: N 1 hardness hardness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 impracticability impracticability &c.(impossibility) 471 Sgm: N 1 tough work tough work hard work uphil …

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