pecker

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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly

   • Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more str
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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.regionaluncommon

   • Let sturdy youths their pointed peckers ply, Till the rais'd roots loose on the surface lie.
   • A small narrow hoe or pecker... A small hand-pecker.
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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularlyuncommon

   • The upper end of the finger o carries a "pecker" p, which consists of a hardened steel piece with a V edge. This pecker is engaged by any one of several steps or notches in a stepped block m carried by the rocking lever l.
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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashionobsoleteuncommon

   • The shuttle... receives its motion from the peckers connected with cords pulled by the pecking lever.
   • When the shaft [of the draw-boy] rocks from side to side of the machine, it will carry the pecker... with it.
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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashionhistoricaluncommon

   • Click, click, click, the pecker is at work.
   • Pecker, the small cylindrical pin which rises and falls in scanning the holes punched in a slip corresponding to the coding of the message.
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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashionUSabbreviationalt-of

   • Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker.
   • After being thrashed by flail or whipped off, the rice was milled and dressed wholly by hand or by a crude machine called a ‘pecker’.
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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.

   • The Titmouse, and the Peckers hungry Brood.
   • By far the greater number of modern birds belong to the... orders of the perchers, the peckers, and the birds of prey.
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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.USabbreviationalt-of

   • The pecker was esteemed a sacred and divine bird.
   • I've been feeding several downy ’peckers from my short-perched tubes for years.
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   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; An eater, a diner.UKobsoleteregional

   • He's a rare pecker.
   • Peck... A hearty eater is generally called ‘a rare pecker’.
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    Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill; A bird's beak.UKregional

    • Pecker, a bird's bill
    • Q. What does a bird peck its food up with?... [Wiltshire] Beak, pecker.

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