woodhackn.
/ˈwʊdhak/ Obsolete (or dialect)
A woodpecker.
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speck1601
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 531/2 Wodehake, or reyne fowle.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 763/1 Hic icter, a wodake.
a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. B.iii The woodhacke, yt syngeth chur Horsly as he had the mur.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 289/2 Wodhacke a byrde.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 100 Green woodpecker (Gecinus viridis)..Wood hack (Lincoln).
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker)
woodhackc1440
woodwall1490
woodpecker1530
woodhacker1548
woodpeck1552
woodspite1555
woodspeckc1560
modwall1572
eat-bill1598
speck1601
tree-jobber1601
hecco1604
eat-bee1608
knag1639
French pie1783
pie1783
nicker-pecker1787
rind-tabberer1848
peckerwood1859
nickle1885
nicker1886
1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. (1550) Picchio, a woodhacker or a woodwall.
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