Meaning of nut-bar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bar or shaft with an aperture for a bolt or threaded rod to attach to or pass through.
2. An insane person, a crazy person, a madwoman or madman.
   informal

Examples

“The bit-screw, passing through the nut-bar, is then turned back from the face of the coal or rock as far as is found necessary, and the bit secured to the same.”

“The nut-bar in Bed Three kept us all awake with his morose, nonsensical prophesies. And by “all of us” I mean myself, the gentleman in Bed Two, and the nut-bar as well, of course”

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