bannutn.
dialect.
A walnut; but in an early vocabulary applied to the filbert.
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hazelnuteOE
Avellana1398
filberta1400
bannuta1500
cob-nut1574
cob1589
hazel1601
Pontic nut1601
stock-nut1833
Barcelona nut1851
noisette1970
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walnutc1050
French nut?a1200
walsh-nut1368
bannuta1500
French walnut1639
Madeira nut1791
Jupiter's nut1866
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 629 Auelana, bannenote-tre.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxi. sig. K.iii The walnut & the banocke be of one operacyon.
1821 R. Southey Life (1849) I. 54 The boys were employed also to squail at the bannets, that is, to throw at his walnuts.
1879 in Shropshire Gloss. (E.D.S.) Bannut.
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