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ˈcrack-nut, n. and a.
A. n. A nut-cracker. Now dial.
In the first quot. the meaning may be ‘nuts that one cracks’.
16..Fletcher Poems 244 (in Wright Prov. Dict.) That sweet fool, Just wean'd from's bread and butter, and the school..Cracknuts and hobbihorse. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Wd-bk., Cracknuts, nut-crackers.
B. adj. That cracks nuts.
1587M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 67 The little crack-nut squirrel. |