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nutshell

noun
/ˈnʌt.ʃɛl/

Etymology

From Middle English notschelle, from Old English hnutsċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *hnutskallju, equivalent to nut + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Nuteskele, Nuteskil (“nutshell”), Dutch notenschaal (“nutshell”), German Nussschale (“nutshell”).

  1. inherited from *hnutskallju✻
  2. inherited from hnutsċiell
  3. inherited from notschelle

Definitions

  1. The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.

    • For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.

  2. A short book summarizing an area of law.

  3. A small boat

    A small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To summarize (from the term in a nutshell).

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