Nutcrackers

Definition: Nutcrackers

Nutcrackers

Noun

1. A compound lever used to crack nuts open.

Date "nutcrackers" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Nutcrackers

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Nutcrackers The 3rd Foot; so called because at Albuera they cracked the heads of the Polish Lancers, then opened and retreated, but in a few minutes came again into the field and did most excellent service. Now called "The East Kent." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	NUTCRACKERS. The pillory: as, The cull peeped through the nutcrackers. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Nutcrackers

Synonym: nutcracker (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nutcrackers

English words defined with "nutcrackers": genus Nucifraga ♦ Nucifraga. (references)

Specialty definitions using "nutcrackers": NUTCRACKERS. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Nutcrackers

Domain	Title
Books	Anri Woodcarving: Bottle Stoppers, Corkscrews, Nutcrackers, Toothpick Holders, Smoking Accessories, and More (reference) Nutcrackers (reference) Nuts and Nutcrackers (The Novels of Charles Lever (40 Volumes)) (reference) Seesaws, Nutcrackers, Brooms: Simple Machines That Are Really Levers (Gateway) (reference) The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nutcrackers

"Nutcrackers" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nutcrackers" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	7	133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nutcrackers

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
nutcrackers	81
steinbach nutcrackers	72
german nutcrackers	8
ulbricht nutcrackers	5
antique nutcrackers	4
nutcrackers picture	3
christmas nutcrackers	3
erzgebirge nutcrackers	2
old world christmas nutcrackers	2
wooden nutcrackers	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nutcrackers

Language		Translations for "nutcrackers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		лешникотрошачка. (various references)

Czech		louskáèek (crackers, nutcracker, nut-cracker). (various references)

French		casse noisettes. (various references)

German		nußknacker (nutcracker). (various references)

Hungarian		diótörő (cracker, crackers, nutcracker). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		胡桃割り (nutcracker). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くるみわり (nutcracker). (various references)

Pig Latin		utcrackersnay

Spanish		rompenueces. (various references)

Swedish		nötknäppare (crackers, nutcracker). (various references)

Thai		ที่บีบหรือกะเทาะเปลือกถั่ว (nutcracker). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Nutcrackers

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Nucifraga caryocatactes, RM:cratschla. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Nutcrackers

Misspellings
	"Nutcrackers" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nutcrackery. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Nutcrackers

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-k-n-r-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: nutcracker.
	-3 letters: centaurs, crackers, crankest, currants, currents, recusant, restruck, retracks, strucken, trackers, truckers, uncrates.
	-4 letters: accents, accrues, accurst, accuser, cancers, cankers, canters, carnets, carters, centaur, cracker, cranker, craters, curares, curates, currans, currant, current, encrust, errants, kraters, natures, nectars, nutcase, rackers, rackets, rankers, rankest, ranters, recants, reracks, restack, retacks, retrack, returns, saunter, scanter, scarcer.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-k-n-r-r-s-t-u"
	+5 letters: counterattackers.
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