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
Now were G-SCH-N seen collecting cash for his dry Exchequer With pole and net, it were nicer, you bet, than keeping up his financial pecker With Spirit Duties!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 by Various
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 Neltje Blanchan
Keep up your pecker, sir; never say die; and don’t you think about it.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
Yes, he picked a peck of pepper; Pick, pecker, peacock!
From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by M. E. S. Wright
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 and porridge, yol get better forridge, Wen the railway gets fairly agait.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
