Dictionary entry

Cracker

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Crack″er (krăk″ẽr), n. 1. One who, or that which, cracks.

2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?

Shak.

3. 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.

4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.

6. (Zoöl.) The pintail duck.

7. pl.(Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.