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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