pecker🔊

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:

(regional) Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.

(uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:

# (obsolete) A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.

# (historical) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.

# (historical) (nodot=11), a rice mill.

(zoology) A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.

# (regional) (nodot=11) ((family)).

(obsolete) An eater, a diner.

(regional) A bird's beak or bill.

(slang) A penis; cock, dick.

(‘beak’) A nose.

(from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.

(slang) ''Short for'' peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")

(slang) ''Short for'' peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").

(US) (nodot=11) ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads").