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Definition of Cracker-barrel
1. Adjective. Characteristic of country life. "The air of homespun country boys"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cracker-barrel
Literary usage of Cracker-barrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lyon Campaign in Missouri: Being a History of the First Iowa Infantry by Eugene Fitch Ware (1907)
"The cracker-barrel.—The Dust.—Controversy with Lyon.—The New Musket.—Watch
Trade.—"Orphan."—August 6th.—Camp near Phelps.—New Pants.—Term of Service. ..."
2. Modern Capital of Human Rights?: Abuses in the State of Georgia by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1996)
"Cheryl Summerville, who worked as a cook for Cracker Barrel for nearly four ...
38 Despite vocal public objection, Cracker Barrel refused to rescind its ..."
3. The Young Man in Modern Life by Beverley Ellison Warner (1904)
"Are you among the first in the work you found to be yours, when you came to the
knowledge that you must work and not sit on a cracker barrel whittling ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Fifty pounds are usually packed in an apple or cracker barrel and from seventy-five
to ninety pounds in a sugar barrel. The lettuce is protected from frost ..."
5. Life in Old Virginia: A Description of Virginia More Particularly the by James Joseph McDonald (1907)
"... was given charge of the cracker barrel and the cheese box, but unfortunately
the cheese box, and the " patent axle grease" box were in close proximity, ..."
6. Garden Farming by Lee Cleveland Corbett (1913)
"The heads are then packed either in barrels of cracker-barrel size made of slats
or staves to give ample ventilation or, better, in tall barrel-high stave ..."
7. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"... hails from Cape Cod, the home of the old salt and the ever occupied cracker
barrel. The old Cap'n is largely made up of chuckles ; his sister Heppy, ..."
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