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butterfly nut
noun
A nut with wing-like projections to provide leverage in turning with thumb and forefinger.
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Use washers and butterfly nuts to secure them.
If the item is really heavy, you may want to use butterfly nuts instead.
Tol and collaborators [ 8] also built an immobilizer device for animals consisting of a plate with butterfly wing nuts that fix the screws on the front part of the device, which is supported on rubber feet and has an anatomical top opening shaped like a handle for easy transport and handling.
I'd been swiftly checked in to my room in the Butterfly House, where a fire was laid and the refrigerator stocked with gourmet root beer, Hawaiian flatbread crackers, macadamia nut cookies and other imaginative treats, all free.
"Monarch butterfly".
Social butterfly?
Transatlantic Butterfly.
Madama Butterfly!
Butterflies gravitate to the two butterfly bushes.
"That was a butterfly".
Butterfly" and "Chinglish".
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