sb. and a.
A. sb. 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.
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Wd.-bk., Cracknuts, nut-crackers.
B. adj. That cracks nuts.
1587. M. Grove, Pelops & Hipp. (1878), 67. The little crack-nut squirrel.
