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
He's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
Keep your pecker up, James,' he added, in a tone which the patron and the bully spoke at once.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by David Christie Murray
The natural home of Taxus—the Exchequer— Harbours a creature that keeps up its pecker.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 by Various
That's a matter of doubt, cross-hedges my pathway still chequer, The clue I've let slip, but you just take my tip; we'll get clear—if you keep up your pecker!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 by Various
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
Of course the swallows had long since departed, and with the advent of the blue-jays and golden-winged wood peckers a few heavy-pinioned hawks had appeared, wheeling all day over the pine-woods, calling querulously.
From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
