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• Nook

  ·noun A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• nook

  a corner ; the toll-nook, the corner of the market-place where the toll used to be taken. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Nook-shotten

  ·adj Full of nooks, angles, or corners. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• nook-shotten

  spoken of a wall in a bevil, and not at right angles with another wall. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• toll-nook

  a corner of the market place where the toll used to be taken. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• nook-shotten

  A Shakspearian expression for a coast indented with bays; as in Henry V. Bourbon speaks contemptuous...

  The Sailor's Word-Book