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