woodhack Obs. (or dial.)
(ˈwʊdhæk)
Forms: 5 wodehake, wodake, 6 wo(o)dhacke, 9 woodhack.
[f. wood n.1 + stem of hack v.1 (Cf. notehake, nuthatch.)]
A woodpecker.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 531/2 Wodehake, or reyne fowle. c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 763/1 Hic icter, a wodake. a 1529 Skelton P. Sparowe 418 The woodhacke, that syngeth chur Horsly, as he had the mur. 1530 Palsgr. 289/2 Wodhacke a byrde. 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Birds 100 Green woodpecker (Gecinus viridis)..Wood hack (Lincoln). |
So † ˈwoodˌhacker (rare).
| 1548 Thomas Ital. Dict. (1550), Picchio, a woodhacker or a woodwall. |