casse-noisettes, n.m., (plur. —) nut-crackers.
casse-noix, n.m., (—) nut-crackers; (orni.) nut-hatch.
casser, v.a., to break; to crack; to cashier; to waste; to wear out; to annul; to rescind; to shiver (a mast). Qui casse les verres les paie or Il faut payer les pots cassés; you must stand the racket. — un jugement; to reverse a judgment. Cassé de vieillesse; worn out with old age. Voix cassée; broken voice. Vous me cassez la tête; you bore me to death. — aux gages; to dismiss, to discharge.
se casser, v.r., to break; to break down; to wear out; to snap. Se — la tête; to break one’s head; to puzzle one’s brains. Se — le cou; to break one’s neck. Se — la jambe; to break one’s leg.
casser, v.n., to break. À tout —; with a vengeance; at break-neck speed.
casserole, n.f., saucepan, stewpan.
casse-tête, n.m., (—) tomahawk; puzzle-brain; heady wine; din, noise. Quel —! what a din!
cassetin, n.m., (print.) box.
cassette, n.f., casket; cash-box. La — du roi; the King’s privy purse.
casseu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., breaker, smasher. C’est un grand — de raquettes; he is a real matador. Un — d’assiettes; a quarrelsome fellow, blusterer, bully.