cracker vs rute

cracker

noun
  • The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound. 

  • A police officer. 

  • A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers). 

  • An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn). 

  • Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker 

  • A Christmas cracker. 

  • A firecracker. 

  • A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). 

  • One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions. 

  • A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked. 

  • A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck. 

  • A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack). 

  • An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person. 

rute

noun
  • A bundle of thin sticks, typically made of wood, sometimes bond in such a way that binding can be moved so that it varies the tightness of the binding. 

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