Nutcracker
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A nutcracker is a tool designed to open nuts by cracking their shells. There are many designs, including levers, screws, and ratchets. The lever version is also used for cracking lobster and crab shel
A screw nutcracker
Modern screw nutcracker designed specifically for macadamia nuts
A variety of figure nutcrackers
Nutcracker doll
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Nutcracker dolls, also known as Christmas nutcrackers, are decorative nutcracker figurines most commonly made to resemble a toy soldier. In German tradition, the dolls were created as representatives
Nutcracker
…are many designs, including levers, screws, and ratchets. The lever version is also used for cracking lobster and crab shells. A decorative version, a nutcracker doll, portrays a person whose mouth forms the jaws of the nutcracker. Nuts were historically opened using a hammer and anvil, often made of stone. Some nuts…
Original nutcracker dolls from Nussknacker Museum in Neuhausen, Saxony