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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

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

Ta-ta, old man; keep your pecker up till I come, and then mind your eye!

From The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed

He got near enough to his sisters to say: "Keep up your pecker, Pansy, for there won't be any Aberdeen about it."

From Crusoes of the Frozen North by Gordon Stables

Our people met with other small birds there, but in no great variety and abundance; such as the wood pecker, the bullfinch, the yellow finch, and a small bird called a tit-mouse.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr

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