† woodpeckn.
Obsolete.
= woodpecker n. 1.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker)
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speck1601
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Woodepyke byrde, picus.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 193 Byrdes..lyke vnto those which we caule woodwaules, or woodpeckes.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. x. xxix. 285 Men say that in the territorie of Tarentum there be no wood-pecks or tree-jobbers.
1694 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic in Poems 19 Nor Wood-pecks, nor the Swallow harbour near.
1706 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens i. 194 Wood-pecks, and ruder Birds the Trees invade.
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