pecker

"Thank you so much to everyone that has bought it - I hope you're having as much fun listening to it as I had making it. Keep your pecker up and all the very best."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2014

“Keep your pecker up, and if you’ll take the advice of an old sailor, I’d recommend you to write to your friends and go home.”

From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by William Heysham Overend

He's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.

From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

The other cause is the very imperfect mode of its preparation for market; this being invariably accomplished by the primitive pestle and mortar, or the old-fashioned "pecker mill."

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

All around reigned holy silence, Only heard there was the hammering Of the pecker on the pine-trees.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Concrete peckers will be used to take the old bridge away before the debris is removed and the new bridge will be wheeled down the motorway and fitted into place.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024

A perennial headache is the exotic structures' attraction for curiosity seekers and peckers.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Later they are among the most inveterate robbers of cherry orchards and peckers of figs, which they always attack on the ripest side.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish