pecker
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"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
"Them strangers an' grandpap an' Uncle Arch—an' another rock- pecker."
From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John
Keep your pecker up, old man, Georgie and I are both going to back you up.
From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
He never bores a tree to get insects as his cousins do, for only when a nest must be chiseled out is he a wood pecker in the strict sense.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje
The bark of the squirrel, the cooing of mated doves, the “rat-ta-ta” of the pecker, and the constant and measured chirrup of the cicada, are all ringing together.
From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.
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
Sez Dick o’ Grate Beckers, just keep up yor peckers, Yo’ hevn’t much longer to wait, For blue milk an’ porridge, yo’ll get better forridge, Wen th’ railway gets fairly agait.
From Th' History o' Haworth Railway fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
