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Dictionary: dictd_www.dict.org_gcide
Definition: Peck

Peck \Peck\, v. i.
1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed
instrument. --Carew.
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2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
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[The hen] went pecking by his side. --Dryden.
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To peck at, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to
carp at; to nag; to tease.
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Peck \Peck\, n.
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a
pointed instrument.
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Peck \Peck\, n. [Perh. akin to pack; or, orig., an indefinite
quantity, and fr. peck, v. (below): cf. also F. picotin a
peak.]
1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight
quarts; as, a peck of wheat. ``A peck of provender.''
--Shak.
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2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. ``A peck of
uncertainties and doubts.'' --Milton.
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Peck \Peck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pecked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pecking.] [See Pick, v.]
1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a
bird pecks a tree.
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2. Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with
a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc.,
with repeated quick movements.
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3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak;
to bite; to eat; -- often with up. --Addison.
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This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. --Shak.
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4. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed
instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
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Dictionary: quick_english-indonesian
Definition: peck

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Dictionary: WordNet
Definition: peck

peck
n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, {good
deal}, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
mickle, mint, muckle, pile, plenty, pot, {quite
a little}, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, {tidy
sum}, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to
2 gallons
3: a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605
cubic inches
v 1: hit lightly with a picking motion [syn: pick, beak]
2: eat by pecking at, like a bird [syn: pick up]
3: kiss lightly [syn: smack]
4: eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
[syn: pick at, peck at]
5: bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her
husband all day long" [syn: nag, {hen-peck}]