Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CRACK'ER
CRACK'EDCRACK'-HEMP, or CRACK'-ROPE
CRACK'ER, n.
- A noisy boasting fellow. – Shak.
- A rocket; a quantity of gunpowder confined so as to explode with noise.
- A hard biscuit. – America.
- That which cracks any thing.
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