Sentence:  The women with short <WSD>peckers</WSD> or parers,... of a foote long and about fiue inches in breadth: doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to rayse vp the weedes, grasse, & old stubbes of corne stalkes with their rootes... For their corne,... with a <WSD>pecker</WSD> they make a hole, wherein they put foure graines. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.