pecker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more stressed than the peckers.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly

   “The upper end of the finger o carries a "pecker" p, which consists of a hardened steel piece with a V edge. This pecker is engaged by any one of several steps or notches in a stepped block m carried by the rocking lever l.”

4. isim 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.”

5. isim A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.

   “Click, click, click, the pecker is at work.”

6. isim 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.”

7. isim A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.

   “The Titmouse, and the Peckers hungry Brood.”

8. isim Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).

   “The pecker was esteemed a sacred and divine bird.”

9. isim An eater, a diner.

   “He's a rare pecker.”

10. isim A bird's beak.

    “Pecker, a bird's bill”

11. isim A penis; cock, dick.

    “The penis... pecker.”

12. isim A nose.
13. isim Spirits, nerve, courage.

    “Mr. King... misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up.”

14. isim Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")

    “These peckers know that as well as me.”

15. isim Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").

    “Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile […]”

16. isim Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).