pecker
/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/noun
ElementaryNot in standard dictionaries
1
Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly
2
Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
3
Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly
4
A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
5
A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
6
Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.
7
A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
8
Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).
9
An eater, a diner.
10
A bird's beak.
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