Noun(1) a compound lever used to crack nuts open,any of various small short-tailed sharp-beaked birds that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects,speckled birds that feed on nuts(2) a compound lever used to crack nuts open(3) any of various small short-tailed sharp-beaked birds that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects(4) speckled birds that feed on nuts
Noun(1) a compound lever used to crack nuts open,any of various small short-tailed sharp-beaked birds that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects,speckled birds that feed on nuts(2) a compound lever used to crack nuts open(3) any of various small short-tailed sharp-beaked birds that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects(4) speckled birds that feed on nuts
(1) She knew that he kept a hand nutcracker in his desk drawer and on more occasions then one she had thought about stealing it from the desk.(2) There's a Bible story which describes the use of the more gentle nutcracker principle that could be applied to the present situation.(3) It's the nut against the nutcracker ; the outcome is foreordained.(4) Crack about 18 of the apricot stones open with a nutcracker , to get the almonds inside.(5) This classic tale, with its evergreen Tchaikovsky score, tells the story of a girl who receives a nutcracker as a Christmas gift from her uncle, who is known for his fascination with the enchanted.(6) Sighing intensely she looked at the first paper trying to inscribe over the walnut oil stains that had been left by Nick's little nutcracker joke.(7) The middle aged motorist shut his eyes and squeezed them like the jaws of a nutcracker .(8) But because the ligaments are so tight, the jaws couldn't stretch very far, and soon the ligaments would begin acting like the fulcrum at the hinged end of the nutcracker .(9) When I think of my professional life, I think of working inside the angle of a giant, open nutcracker .(10) Some people get the same pleasure with a nutcracker and a bowl of walnuts, but, believe me, those people are not reading in bed.(11) You need a nutcracker , a large bib and a bowl of warm melted butter.(12) Joey stood completely erect with his chin up and his arms pressed against his sides firmly, looking very stiff indeed, like a wooden nutcracker of sorts.(13) Generally, a girl, Clara (Mary, Made or Masha in other versions), is given a nutcracker by her godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, at a Christmas Eve party arranged by her parents.(14) The nutcracker is then transformed into a handsome prince who whisks her away to the Kingdom of Sweets, where the Sugar Plum Fairy stages a grand divertissement with them as honoured guests.(15) This is not a primitive Walkman but a pseudophone, clamped like a nutcracker on the skull of its inventor, psychologist Paul T. Young, Ph.D.(16) A rope-tow's a generous interpretation of what it really is; it's fondly called a nutcracker because the device that hangs around your waist clamps onto the rope in the same way a nut would be cracked open.