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nutshell(dictionary)
nutshell(dictionary)

on-drive (iou) and nutshell (medicine)


on-drive (iou)



on-drive noun & verb. M19.
[from ON- + DRIVE noun, verb.]
Cricket.
A. noun. A drive to the on side. M19.
B. verb trans. Pa. t. -drove . Drive to the on side; drive a ball delivered by (a bowler) to the on side. L19.

nutshell (medicine)


nutshell


1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.

3. <zoology> A shell of the genus Nucula. To be, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell."

Source: Websters Dictionary