nuthacker

English

Etymology

From nut +‎ hacker.

Noun

nuthacker (plural nuthackers)

  1. (zoology) The nuthatch.
    • 2013, George Adams, ‎George Martin Adams, Gardening for the Birds: How to Create a Bird-friendly Backyard - Page 346:
      The common names nuthatch and nuthacker refer to the way the bird takes a nut in its claws and hacks at it with its bill or wedges it in the bark of a tree and hacks it with hard strokes to break it open.
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