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Slip :: Slip (n.) An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip..

Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..

Speckled-belly :: Speckled-belly (n.) The gadwall.

Popinjay :: Popinjay (n.) The green woodpecker.

Specht :: Specht (n.) A woodpecker.

Peck :: Peck (v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements..

Oxpecker :: Oxpecker (n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga; the beefeater.

Speckled :: Speckled (imp. & p. p.) of Speckl.

Vervet :: Vervet (n.) A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, / Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white..

Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..

Yaffle :: Yaffle (n.) The European green woodpecker (Picus, / Genius, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack..

Bill :: Bill (v. i.) To strike; to peck.

Quart :: Quart (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints..

Picus :: Picus (n.) A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks..

Speckled-bill :: Speckled-bill (n.) The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).

Saurognathous :: Saurognathous (a.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici)..

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards..

Dab :: Dab (n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.

Ivory-bill :: Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States..

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