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noun

Nutcracker n.

An instrument for cracking nuts.

(Zool.)

(a)

A European bird (Nucifraga caryocatactes), allied to the magpie and crow. Its color is dark brown, spotted with white. It feeds on nuts, seeds, and insects.

(b)

The American, or Clarke's, nutcracker (Picicorvus Columbianus) of Western North America.

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Etymology of 'Nutcracker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nutcracker" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Isles of the Green Sea," is young, and has a remarkably small mouth with an amiable expression. His complexion is fair rather than dark, but his hair is dark brown. His lieutenant, the next in order, is of a different type,—elderly, with a most forbidding visage, Roman nose, and nutcracker jaws. Most of the others are very much alike,—young, dark in complexion, and with long black hair hanging below their waists and twisted up into fantastic knots and curls on the tops of their heads. ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery • L.W. King and H.R. Hall

... them shoes, and that there nice warm jacket and clean shirt. Tain't had one for weeks. And I'll just trouble you for the powder and shot. Let him get up, mate. He won't try to run, because he knows I should have to wipe his head with this little nutcracker. Why don't you let him get up?—Yah! ...

— First in the Field - A Story of New South Wales • George Manville Fenn

... they were told, laughing hard all the time. Whenever they pulled down the pigtail, there was a sharp CRACK, and a broken nut sprang out of the Nutcracker's mouth. ...

— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... blackbird, whose habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate. "Jim Crow" shuns the mountains for reasons satisfactory to himself; not so the magpie, the raven, and that mischief-maker, Clark's nutcracker. All of which keeps the bird-lover from the East in an ecstasy of surprises until he has become accustomed to ...

— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser

Words linked to "Nutcracker" : Clark's nutcracker, European nuthatch, compound lever, family Sittidae, Nucifraga, corvine bird, red-breasted nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, oscine, common nutcracker, nuthatch, Nucifraga columbiana, genus Nucifraga, Sitta carolinensis, white-breasted nuthatch, Sitta europaea, Sittidae, oscine bird, Nucifraga caryocatactes