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† ˈwoodpeck Obs.
Also 6 -pyke.
[app. alteration of woodspeck after next.]
= next, 1.
1552Huloet, Woodepyke byrde, picus. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 224 Certeyne byrdes..lyke vnto those which we caule woodwaules or woodpeckes. 1601Holland Pliny x. xxix. I. 285 Men say that in the territorie of Tarentum there be no wood-pecks or tree-jobbers. 1694Addison Poems, Virgil's 4th Georg. 19 Nor Wood-pecks, nor the Swallow harbour near. 1706Gardiner tr. Rapin's Gardens (1728) 197 Wood-pecks, and various birds the trees invade. |