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plural nutshells
The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut. quotations examples
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.
c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
A short book summarizing an area of law. examples
(nautical) A small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas. quotations examples
[A]t last the fishing-line stood straight out behind, and the stone weights jumped along the tops of the billows, while the seas - notwithstanding the guiding hand of the pilot sought to avoid them - broke over our little nutshell, and sent the spray high above mast and sail.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182
third-person singular simple present nutshells, present participle nutshelling, simple past and past participle nutshelled
(transitive) To summarize (from the term in a nutshell). examples