pecker

Example Sentences

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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

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

From The Master of the Shell by Reed, Talbot Baines

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 Kerr, Robert

Well, keep up yer pecker, my pippin, and keep down yer natural rage.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry

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 Simmonds, P. L.