单词 | woodspeck |
释义 | woodspeckn. dialect. A woodpecker. ΘΚΠ 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 c1560 Parl. Birds (Lansd. 210) f. 76 Then in her hole spake the wood spek I wold the hawk had broke her nek. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 25 Euery suche leafe or pricke [of Juniper] is very like vnto ye ende of the tonge of an hueholl or wodspike. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiv. f. 177v On the head therof were garlonds store And eeke a woodspecke. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxx. xvi. 399 As many as have about them the bill of a woodspeck when they come to take hony out of the hive, shall not be stung by bees. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Woodspack, a woodpecker. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 99 Green Woodpecker... Wood spite (Norfolk). Wood spack (Norfolk; Suffolk). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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