Definition of "nut-pick" [nut-pick]

• A small utensil having a pointed blade, flattened above the point, used for picking the meat of nuts from the shells. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He drew a knife from his pocket and opened one of the blades, which was sharpened like a very large nut-pick."
• ""I'll tell you what I hate," they will say with great relish, "when he takes that little nut-pick and begins to scrape. Ugh!""
• "The larger stone - a double-sided nutter stone - was used as a multi-purpose stone and the smaller, the mono, was used a grinding rock and the nut-pick was used to retrieve the nuts out of the shells, Jody said."