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3 translations across 2 languages.
33 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
Let sturdy youths their pointed peckers ply, Till the rais'd roots loose on the surface lie.
Source: wiktionary
A small narrow hoe or pecker... A small hand-pecker.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include beak, bill, bugle, cock, conk.
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