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Crackable. World English Historical Dictionary

Crackable. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Crackable a. [f. CRACK v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being cracked.

1 1862.  Guardian, 16 April, 1. The fort which can mount the hugest ordnance, and can be so constructed as not to be crackable.

2 1873.  Miss Broughton, Nancy, I. 221. Most of them of a brittle crackable nature.

3   b.  as sb. (in pl.) Things that can be cracked. (nonce-use, after eatables, etc.).

4 1841.  J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, I. 100. Fond o’ breaking crackables.

5   Hence Crackability, quality of being crackable.

6 1810.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., 344. The crackability, which is here made the characteristic of this sort of nut.

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