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Egyptology, by apepch7
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"Most of the young Masters already have their own personal nut free and clear. “Nut” is the term for the amount of money you need salted away in weather-proof investments in order to generate enough interest to live comfortably in Greenwich on Round Hill Road, Pecksland Road or Field Point Road in a house built before the First World War in an enchanting European style, preferably made of stone featuring the odd turret, with a minimum of five acres around it and big enough to be called a manor. Every Master of the Universe knows the number."
The New York Times, Greenwich Time , by Tom Wolfe, September 27, 2008
On a guitar, the device (opposite the tailpiece) that anchors the upper end of the strings and forms the transition between the neck and the headstock.
in addition to more mundane meanings, nut is also the name of a female egyptian deity of the night sky.