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nut-bars

nut-bars is the plural of nut-bar.

Meaning of nut-bar

Noun

nut-bar (plural nut-bars)

  1. (hardware) A bar or shaft with an aperture for a bolt or threaded rod to attach to or pass through.
    • The bit-screw, passing through the nut-bar, is then turned back from the face of the coal or rock as far as is found necessary, and the bit secured to the same.1879, Thomas E. Morpeth, Rock and coal drilling machines, US Patent 216,437, page 493
  2. (informal) An insane person, a crazy person, a madwoman or madman.
    • The nut-bar in Bed Three kept us all awake with his morose, nonsensical prophesies. And by “all of us” I mean myself, the gentleman in Bed Two, and the nut-bar as well, of course2007, Emily Givner, A Heart in Port, page 202
    Synonyms:
    nut

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Questions about nut-bars

What is nut-bars the plural of?
Nut-bars is the plural of nut-bar.

Words near nut-bars in the dictionary

  1. nut weevil
  2. nut weevils
  3. nut wrench
  4. nut wrenches
  5. nut-bar
  6. nut-bars
  7. nut-brown
  8. nut-brown butter
  9. nut-case
  10. nut-cases
  11. nut-cut

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