monkey nut

Example sentences from the Web for monkey nut

• It was still grappling with a monkey-nut, but no doubt a different one.

  Once a Week |Alan Alexander Milne

• He was holding a tiny gourd, no larger than a monkey-nut, suspended from a necklace of polished crocodile teeth.

  The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy |Florence Partello Stuart

• She (Evangeline) was balancing easily on one leg, while with the other leg and her beak she tried to peel a monkey-nut.

  Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 14, 1914 |Various