chicker

"chicker" in the hazel copses; and a large pileated woodpecker was calling out loudly from the top of a tall pine stub, off in the opening.

When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

Wonder whether I can come that _chicker, chicker, chick, chack, chack, chack_, like one of them big monkeys.

Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris George Manville Fenn 1870

I think as the brown one would be a lot chicker -- tone in with the sort of fawn stripe in the blue like, and ketch the note in your tie. "

The Dust Flower Basil King 1893