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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



... joy of the ride. Beneath her Brunette was spurning the turf with dainty hooves; stretching out in her gallop, yet gathering herself cleverly at her fences, with alert, pricked ears—judging her distance, and landing with never a peck or stumble. The light weight on the pony's back was nothing to her; the delicate touch on her mouth was all she needed to ...
— Captain Jim • Mary Grant Bruce
... lady hang her crown?' I asked him. 'It must have a peck of diamonds in it. Can't I ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 - Volume 1, Number 12 • Various
... birds of God," he said to himself, "we hover about a whole wood of the trees of life, venturing only here and there a peck, as if their fruit might be poison, and the design of our creation was our ruin! we shake our wise, owl-feathered heads, and declare they cannot be the trees of life: that were too good to be true! Ten times more consistent are they who deny there is a God at all, than they who believe in a middling ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald
... it good?" was John's mental comment, as he daily watched the proceedings, and while Hannah pronounced him "the hen-peck-ed-est man she had ever seen," the amused villagers knew that will had met will, and ...
— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes
... London consumes one hundred and twenty bushels of coal in twenty-four hours, turns ten pair of stones, which grind eight bushels of flour an hour each, which is nineteen hundred and twenty bushels in the twenty-four hours. This makes a peck and a half of coal perform exactly as much as a horse ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson


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