pecker

noun16

1. •
   Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill.
2. •
   (slang, vulgar) A penis; cock, dick.

   • The penis... pecker. — 1902
3. •
   (UK, informal) Spirits, nerve, courage.

   • Pecker, ‘keep your Pecker up’,... literally, keep your beak and head well up, ‘never say die’. — 1873
4. •
   A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.

   • The Titmouse, and the Peckers hungry Brood. — 1697
5. •
   (US, informal) Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).

   • The pecker was esteemed a sacred and divine bird. — 1883
6. •
   Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.

   • Let sturdy youths their pointed peckers ply, Till the rais'd roots loose on the surface lie. — 1782
7. •
   Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion.
8. •
   (historical) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.

   • Click, click, click, the pecker is at work. — 1858
9. •
   (US, historical) Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.

   • Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker. — 1802
10. •
    (UK) A bird's beak.

    • Q. What does a bird peck its food up with?... [Wiltshire] Beak, pecker. — 1967
11. •
    [in the plural] (slang, offensive) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").

    • Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile […] — 2013
12. •
    (UK, informal) A nose.
13. •
    [in the plural] (slang, offensive) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")

    • These peckers know that as well as me. — 1966
14. •
    (US) Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).
15. •
    (no longer used) A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.

    • The shuttle... receives its motion from the peckers connected with cords pulled by the pecking lever. — 1807
16. •
    (UK, no longer used) An eater, a diner.

    • He's a rare pecker. — 1862