English Dictionary

nutshell

/ˈnʌt.ʃɛl/

noun

The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut. / A short book summarizing an area of law. / (nautical) A small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas.

She cracked open the nutshell to reveal the sweet almond inside.

意味（1）

The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.

For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;

What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,

What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis?

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.

意味（2）

A short book summarizing an area of law.

意味（3）

(nautical) A small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas.

[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.