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Nuthook   Listen
noun
Nuthook  n.  
1.
A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.
2.
A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.





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"Nuthook" Quotes from Famous Books



... pass good humours; I will say 'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's humour on me; that is ...
— The Merry Wives of Windsor • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]


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