Nuthook

1. n. A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.
2. n. A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.