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WOOD-Pecker,

a By-stander that bets, while others game.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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WITCHER-Tilter
To WOBBLE
WOMAN of the Town
WOMBLE-Ty-Cropt
WOODEN-Ruff
WOOD-Pecker
In a WOOD
WOOLLY-Crown
WOOL-Gathering
WORD-Pecker
WORM'D

Nearby:

Wood Pecker in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).