"nut-head" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1881, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 271:",
          "text": "The boards we use are attached to the permanent stone copings by bolts and nuts 4 feet apart ; iron bands, which are used to strengthen the boards, afford firm hold for the nut-heads.",
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          "ref": "1879, United States Patent Office, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office, page 129:",
          "text": "In such a device the riveting may be effected with proper riveting-tools, and the nut-head afterward screwed on.",
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          "ref": "1897, American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions - Volume 26, page 1018:",
          "text": "The machine is commonly rated at 800,000 pounds, but the last experiment approximating three-quarters of that amount ended by shearing off all the nut-heads at the recoil of the machine, and I found my labor was in vain.",
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          "ref": "2013, Lord Frederick J.D. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893), →ISBN:",
          "text": "The rails are bolted to these (the nut-heads being filed off if necessary), and the line thus forms a continuous whole.",
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        "The outer portion of a nut (as opposed to the threads inside)."
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          "ref": "1914, Gulian Lansing Morrill, To Hell and Back: My Trip to South America, page 20:",
          "text": "Speaking of nut-heads reminds me of the shrunken head trophies which head-hunters sell as souvenirs in the interior of Ecuador and of a specimen I later saw in La Paz.",
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          "ref": "1953, Lesley Gordon, Peepshow Into Paradise: A History of Children's Toys:",
          "text": "Dried plants make equally good raw material for toymakers, and vivid little personalities may be born of nut-heads with moss or corn silk hair, and peanuts or seedpods for feet; stitched leaf skirts and tiny bouquets of dried flowers, built on a foundation of pipe-cleaners and posed against a painted background.",
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          "ref": "2011, Geoffrey McIver Cunningham, Plants of Western New South Wales, →ISBN, page 685:",
          "text": "Although dense stands of tall nut-heads are sometimes present after flooding, the plant more commonly occurs as scattered individuals.",
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          "ref": "1962, Harry Allen Smith, To Hell in a Handbasket, page 155:",
          "text": "They were tactful toward me, considerate of my feelings, and usually greeted me with encouraging remarks like, \"Ain't you folks gone bankropt yit?\" or \"They's been some real nut-heads drift through here in my time but you birds take the cake.\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Avram Davidson, Rogue Dragon, →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"'That thing,'\" the mother chuckled juicily at her daughter's clever turn of phrase. \"That's what you call it a straight-jacket, dearyme. He's a nut-head, the poor poke.\"",
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          "ref": "1999, Culture Wars - Volume 19, page 36:",
          "text": "Addressing this cavalier Western attitude, Dr. Muniini K. Mulera warned \"self-righteous moralists informed by hindsight\" not to ask how anyone could be so gullible. \"Labelling these people stupid nut-heads will not do,\" he wrote in the Monitor.",
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          "ref": "2001, Dorothy Garlock, The Edge of Town, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“I'm rinsing myhair in it, nut-head,” Julie said from beneath the swirl of dark blond hair. “Hand me my towel.” “Nut-head? You called your sweet little brother a nut-head?”",
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          "text": "The boards we use are attached to the permanent stone copings by bolts and nuts 4 feet apart ; iron bands, which are used to strengthen the boards, afford firm hold for the nut-heads.",
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          "ref": "1897, American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions - Volume 26, page 1018:",
          "text": "The machine is commonly rated at 800,000 pounds, but the last experiment approximating three-quarters of that amount ended by shearing off all the nut-heads at the recoil of the machine, and I found my labor was in vain.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1953, Lesley Gordon, Peepshow Into Paradise: A History of Children's Toys:",
          "text": "Dried plants make equally good raw material for toymakers, and vivid little personalities may be born of nut-heads with moss or corn silk hair, and peanuts or seedpods for feet; stitched leaf skirts and tiny bouquets of dried flowers, built on a foundation of pipe-cleaners and posed against a painted background.",
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          "text": "They were tactful toward me, considerate of my feelings, and usually greeted me with encouraging remarks like, \"Ain't you folks gone bankropt yit?\" or \"They's been some real nut-heads drift through here in my time but you birds take the cake.\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Avram Davidson, Rogue Dragon, →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"'That thing,'\" the mother chuckled juicily at her daughter's clever turn of phrase. \"That's what you call it a straight-jacket, dearyme. He's a nut-head, the poor poke.\"",
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          "text": "Addressing this cavalier Western attitude, Dr. Muniini K. Mulera warned \"self-righteous moralists informed by hindsight\" not to ask how anyone could be so gullible. \"Labelling these people stupid nut-heads will not do,\" he wrote in the Monitor.",
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          "text": "“I'm rinsing myhair in it, nut-head,” Julie said from beneath the swirl of dark blond hair. “Hand me my towel.” “Nut-head? You called your sweet little brother a nut-head?”",
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