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

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

The natural home of Taxus—the Exchequer— Harbours a creature that keeps up its pecker.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 by Various

The bark of the squirrel, the cooing of mated doves, the “rat-ta-ta” of the pecker, and the constant and measured chirrup of the cicada, are all ringing together.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

He's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George