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Pecker
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- 1 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly
"Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more stressed than the peckers."
- 2 horny projecting mouth of a bird wordnet
- 3 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes. regional, uncommon
"The women with short peckers or parers,... of a foote long and about fiue inches in breadth: doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to rayse vp the weedes, grasse, & old stubbes of corne stalkes with their rootes... For their corne,... with a pecker they make a hole, wherein they put foure graines."
- 4 bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects wordnet
- 5 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly uncommon
"The upper end of the finger o carries a "pecker" p, which consists of a hardened steel piece with a V edge. This pecker is engaged by any one of several steps or notches in a stepped block m carried by the rocking lever l."
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- 6 obscene terms for penis wordnet
- 7 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion; A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp. obsolete, uncommon
"The shuttle... receives its motion from the peckers connected with cords pulled by the pecking lever."
- 8 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion; A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay. historical, uncommon
"Click, click, click, the pecker is at work."
- 9 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion; Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill. US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, historical, regional, uncommon
"Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker."
- 10 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
"The Titmouse, and the Peckers hungry Brood."
- 11 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.; Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae). US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, regional, usually
"The pecker was esteemed a sacred and divine bird."
- 12 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; An eater, a diner. UK, obsolete, regional
"He's a rare pecker."
- 13 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; A bird's beak. UK, regional
"Pecker, a bird's bill"
- 14 Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; A penis; cock, dick. US, regional, slang
"The penis... pecker."
- 15 A nose. UK, broadly, colloquial
- 16 Spirits, nerve, courage. UK, broadly, colloquial
"Mr. King... misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up."
- 17 Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash") abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, in-plural, slang
"These peckers know that as well as me."
- 18 Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot"). abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, in-plural, slang
"Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile […]"
- 19 Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”). US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Etymology
From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).
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