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(1):

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

(2):

(n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.

(3):

(n.) 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):

(n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

(5):

(n.) One who, or that which, cracks.

(6):

(n.) The pintail duck.

(7):

(n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.