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plural woodpeckers
Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood. quotations examples
On its summit towered aloft the fir tree which has often been referred to, like a mighty mast, full of woodpeckers' holes.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89
(military slang) Type 92 heavy machine gun