- any of various devices for a guitar, lute, banjo, etc., that when clamped or screwed down across the strings at a given fret will raise each string a corresponding number of half tones.
- the nut of a guitar, lute, banjo, etc.
- the chief of a branch of the Mafia.
- a device fitted across all the strings of a guitar, banjo, etc, so as to raise the pitch of each string simultaneously
- the presumed title of a Mafia leader
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