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| peck | |
| 1. v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument. |  |
| The birds pecked at their food. | |
| 2. v. To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. | |
| to peck a hole in a tree | |
| 3. v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. | |
| 4. v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up. | |
| 5. v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces. | |
| He has been pecking away at that project for some time now. | |
| 6. v. To type by searching for each key individually. | |
| 7. v. (rare) To type in general. | |
| 8. v. To kiss briefly. | |
| 9. n. An act of striking with a beak. | |
| 10. n. A small kiss. | |
| 11. n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts. | |
| They picked a peck of wheat. | |
| 12. n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. | |
| She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten. | |
| 13. v. (regional) To throw. | |
| 14. v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of teh flat of the foot. | |
| 15. n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects. | |
| an occurrence of peck in rice | |
| 16. n. misspelling of pec | |
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