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/nˈətkrˌækər/ Listen

Nutcracker

noun

A compound lever used to crack nuts open.

Any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects. Synonym: nuthatch.

Speckled birds that feed on nuts.

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Clark's nutcracker

common nutcracker

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"Nutcracker" Quotes from Famous Books

... up on his back so's to get a good whack at the top of his head. And then, sir, by Jupiter! he riz right up like a earthquake under me, and started off at forty miles an hour. He throwed his head back as he run, and ketched me right between his horns, like a nut in a nutcracker. I couldn't have got out of them horns—no, sir, a charge of powder ...

— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield

... sang. Then the two next-door girls handed round the nuts. Nobody could find the nutcrackers and Joe was nearly getting cross over it and asked how did they expect Maria to crack nuts without a nutcracker. But Maria said she didn't like nuts and that they weren't to bother about her. Then Joe asked would she take a bottle of stout and Mrs. Donnelly said there was port wine too in the house if she would prefer that. Maria said she would rather ...

— Dubliners • James Joyce

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