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Definition of Nutpick
1. Noun. (American English) A sharp tool used for digging the edible portion out of a nut. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nutpick
1. a device for extracting the kernels from nuts [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutpick
Literary usage of Nutpick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1918)
"... am sure no reasonably prudent person would have trusted her with a nutpick;
but she had the serene confidence of an inspired and magnificent ignorance. ..."
2. Systematic Science Teaching: A Manual of Inductive Elementary Work for All by Edward Gardiner Howe (1894)
"(A seesaw, a balance, a pump handle, a pair of scissors, a nutpick, a poker, a
claw hammer drawing a nail, etc.) Where is the weight or work to be done ? ..."
3. The School Kitchen Textbook: Lessons in Cooking and Domestic Science for the by Mary Johnson Lincoln (1915)
"... small and large, with perforations, a wire spoon, large and small silver
spoons, scales, a hair-sieve, a silver nutpick or skewer, a granite colander, ..."
4. The School Kitchen Textbook: Lessons in Cooking and Domestic Science for the by Mary Johnson Lincoln (1915)
"... a silver nutpick or skewer, a granite colander, a wooden masher, and several
yards of coarse and fine cheese cloth, and fine cotton and woolen flannel. ..."
5. Food and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Helen Kinne, Anna Maria Cooley (1916)
"... because sometimes these are prepared in uncleanly places. Crack your own nuts
with a hammer, and take out the meats with clean hands and a nutpick. ..."
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