Early "nutcrackers" were basalt and limestone rocks, pitted by use in opening large quantities of nuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hominids Go Nuts] Reference

The "nutcrackers," such as the one shown here, were basalt and limestone rocks, pitted by use in opening large quantities of nuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hominids Go Nuts] Reference

And how about those Hillary Clinton "nutcrackers" sold in airport shops!.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Catholic Reporter] Reference

It was quite impossible to present Mme. Sauvage herself, for the "nutcrackers" had grown suspicious of every one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cousin Pons] Reference

September 24, 2009 at 2:53 pm u nutcrackers me up.    From Wordnik.com.  [quick fran, tourists. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

M. O'BRIEN: Those nutcrackers are tightly lashed in.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2004] Reference

Loved your book if it is indeed you on pines and nutcrackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit] Reference

I know that grimace, and I move away and look at nutcrackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Side of Dark] Reference

As an aside, I want one of those Margaret Thatcher nutcrackers!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time for action not inaction] Reference

I missed setting out the nutcrackers with him at Christmas time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Year: Croque Monsieur Bake and Cheescake] Reference

A concern raised by the Tudor Ladies ball-busters, er, nutcrackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regretsy – Eyre Head] Reference

They pull out those nutcrackers in the shape of her supposed thighs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erica Jong: Patriarchy:1000, Hillary:0] Reference

She sold little Santas and his elves and nutcrackers and baby Jesuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predator]

He'd got him i! self into nutcrackers and while they squeezed he couldn't get out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rat Race]

I can get rid of the, all the old ones I have from -- remember the old nutcrackers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2001] Reference

His nose is as long and as pointed as an extinguisher, and his jaws like nutcrackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference

I suspect a family of Clark's nutcrackers, like the one that flew away as we came up.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Just having a banana goldfish in a solid-silver bathtub between primitive nutcrackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Metrics of Use] Reference

The line about Golda Meir and buying a case of nutcrackers and passing them out was hilarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Accuses Obama Campaign Of Being Behind Stories About "Talks" Between Camps] Reference

Never underestimate the need for one more redundant tool, why do you have two lite nutcrackers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flights of Fancy: The Art of Unsimplification] Reference

Maybe those Hillary nutcrackers I see in the oddity shop downtown are more poignant than I realized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Totality Of Polls Suggest that Indiana And North Carolina Could Be A Wash] Reference

Mrs. Clinton's supporters are now complaining about the Hillary nutcrackers sold at every airport shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex and the Sissy] Reference

If Obama thinks the Clintons are hitting him low, wait until the Republicans bring out their nutcrackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Hits Bill Again, Faults National Media For Misreporting On Reagan Comments] Reference

For a second Cheniston said nothing, his brown hand playing absently with a pair of nutcrackers beside him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afterwards] Reference

Sam Weller is not more piquant; Hans Anderson's nutcrackers and knitting-needles are not more thoroughly charged with life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land] Reference

Since then the Americans had adopted the idea of using tanks not simply as nutcrackers, but in reconnaissance and as "cavalry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

If you were out in the cross hall, you saw those giant nutcrackers -- did you see the really big nutcrackers that are out there?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2003] Reference

Four or five Clark's nutcrackers complaining to themselves, or the rest of the world, as they follow the elk to the western grove.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

And why do you flame their hatred by advertising antiHillary nutcrackers and tshirts on a page of supposedly thoughtful commentary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slay That Green Dragon] Reference

And say you were looking for nutcrackers ... same idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

But the laird caught up a pair of nutcrackers, and threw it at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Gibbie] Reference

He smiled again, this time at her, and took up the nutcrackers and a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Song of the Lark] Reference

Everything is there from a bathtub to nutcrackers, and I know a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The River's End] Reference

For example, The Cincinnati Ballet is decorating its wreath with nutcrackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cincinnati.Com - All Local News] Reference

Incensed by those Hillary Clinton nutcrackers, the "Iron my shirt!" catcall, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [TakePart Social Action Network™] Reference

Some of the most popular themed nutcrackers are the Wizard of Oz nutcrackers and the new 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

You try to have holiday spirit when those three-feet high decorative nutcrackers are gaping at you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eastern Echo] Reference