hickory nut

noun

hickory nut

noun

1

One of the large edible nuts of the hickory tree.

To break the shell of a hickory nut, you needed a hammer and an act of Congress, and even then you needed a screwdriver to get at the meat, which was about as tasty as a clod of limestone.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 270:

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