Cracker

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The pintail duck.

II. Cracker ·noun One who, or that which, cracks.

III. Cracker ·noun A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

IV. Cracker ·noun A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

V. Cracker ·noun A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.

VI. Cracker ·noun A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

VII. Cracker ·noun A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise;

— often called firecracker.

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