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

"Them strangers an' grandpap an' Uncle Arch—an' another rock- pecker."

From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John

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.

Shields rode out and hunted in the morning without Suckcess he returned at 11 A.M. having killed only a black wood pecker with a red breast as discribed hereafter.

From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Lewis, Meriwether

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 Stables, Gordon