A Pecker

1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:
   1. (uncommon or regional) Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
   2. (uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:
      1. (weaving, obsolete) A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
      2. (telegraphy, historical) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
      3. (US regional, historical) Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.
   3. (zoology) A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
      1. (zoology, usually colloquial or US regional) Clipping of woodpecker (Picidae).
   4. (UK regional, obsolete) An eater, a diner.
   5. (UK regional) A bird's beak or bill.
   6. (chiefly US, regional, slang) A penis; cock, dick.
2. (UK colloquial, by extension of the sense ‘beak’) A nose.
3. (UK colloquial, by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.
4. (chiefly in the plural, derogatory slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
5. (chiefly in the plural, derogatory slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
6. (US) Clipping of pecker head ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads").

Synonyms

• (penis) penis
• (courage) courage
• (connection box) pothead (Canada); T-box, T-block (UK)