castellated nut

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noun

a tall lock nut, having on its outer face radial slits allowing for insertion of a cotter pin or wire in both the nut and a hole in its bolt, so as to prevent the nut from coming loose.

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Also called castle nut.

Origin of castellated nut

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby castellated nut

Castellanos, castellanus, castellany, castellated, castellated beam, castellated nut, castellatus, Castellón de la Plana, castellum, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Castelo Branco

How to use castellated nut in a sentence

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During the first 32 minutes of Left Behind, the message is this: Christians are nut jobs.
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Bob McDonnell went from GOP family-values godsend to blaming everything on his ‘nut bag’ wife.
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This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.
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It is prepared from the nut of the areca palm, one of the most beautiful trees in the world.
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For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.
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We had each of us a fresh cocoa-nut with a hole bored in it, containing at least a pint of clear, sweet-tasting water.
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It is fortunately one of the best-preserved of the castellated ruins in the Kingdom.
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