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nut·hatch \ˈnətˌhach\ noun Etymology: alteration (influenced by hatch) (I) of Middle English nuthak, alteration (influenced by hak hack) of notehache, from note nut + hache ax, hatchet (from Old French, battle-ax); from its way of breaking nuts for food — more at nut, hack, hash : any of various birds of the family Sittidae that are chiefly small with long wings and a short tail, creep over the trunk and branches of trees, and have character and habits intermediate between the titmice and the creepers — see red-breasted nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch
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