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Acorn

n.
  1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  2. (Naut.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  3. (Zoöl.) See Acorn-shell.