Wing-nut

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of wing nut. alt-of, alternative

    "I removed the front maiden, tossed out the evil wood screw, and equipped the maiden with a special bit of hardware which has a wood screw on one end and is threaded for a wing-nut on the other end."

  2. 2
    a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning wordnet
  3. 3
    any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia wordnet

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butterfly nutthumbnutwing nutwing screw

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"I removed the front maiden, tossed out the evil wood screw, and equipped the maiden with a special bit of hardware which has a wood screw on one end and is threaded for a wing-nut on the other end."

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