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butternuts

Word definitions for butternuts in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Walnut \Wal"nut\, n. [OE. walnot, AS. wealh-hnutu a Welsh or foreign nut, a walnut; wealh foreign, strange, n., a Welshman, Celt (akin to OHG. Walh, properly, a Celt, from the name of a Celtic tribe, in L. Volcae) + hnutu a nut; akin to D. walnoot, G. walnuss, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of butternut English)

Usage examples of butternuts.

But the news from Sharpsburg worried the men: McClellan, a soldier's general, had turned Lee's men around and sent the butternuts home.

The hearthstone is an enormous block of trap rock, with a surface not perfectly even, but a capital place to crack butternuts on.

At the garden's perimeter was a woodland of mutant elms, butternuts, and sugar maples that did not quite conceal the softly lighted, soaring stratotowers of the administration buildĀ­ings situated a couple of kloms to the north.