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Peck   /pɛk/   Listen
noun
Peck  n.  
1.
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat. "A peck of provender."
2.
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. "A peck of uncertainties and doubts."


Peck  n.  A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.


verb
Peck  v. t.  (past & past part. pecked; pres. part. pecking)  
1.
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
2.
Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
3.
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up. "This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas."
4.
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.


Peck  v. i.  
1.
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
2.
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat. "(The hen) went pecking by his side."
To peck at,
(a)
to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease.
(a)
to eat slowly and in small portions, with litle interest; as, to peck at one's food.





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"Peck" Quotes from Famous Books



... one?"—Harold had passed in a flash from his hostess. "A man who like me hasn't seen one for six months could perfectly do, I assure you, with one that has lost its what-do-you-call it." He kissed Nanda with a friendly peck, then, more completely aware, had a straighter apprehension for Tishy. "My dear child, YOU seem to have lost something, though I'll say for you that one ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... may be said to have commenced with 1856, the year the first house was built. This house was enlarged in 1858 by Hite and Beardsley and used for a hotel. Sullivan and Cushman secured it for a debt the following year, and it was operated in turn by Peck, Longhurst, and Hutchings until 1871. Meantime J.C. Lamon settled in 1860, the first actual resident of the valley, an honor which he did not share ...
— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard
... birds in the window recess try vainly to snatch a moment's sleep between shots and the trains that go roaring overhead on the elevated road. Roused by the sharp crack of the rifles, they blink at the lights in the street, and peck moodily at a crust in ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis
... beetles are borers in the hickory and other nut trees. Then, too, the leopard moth, zeuzera pyrina Linn., and the carpenter worm, Prionoxystus robiniae Peck, may be found occasionally in most any kind ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various
... wonder of her, and that delighted her. Even the obviousness of his slippers stuffed out with carrots could catch him napping. To her dance of glee behind him, he kept poking and poking to get into them, only the peck of her kiss upon his neck finally ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst


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