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Verb
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pecks, 3rd person singular present; pecked, past participle; pecking, present participle; pecked, past tense;
  1. (of a bird) Strike or bite something with its beak
    • - two geese were pecking at some grain
    • - beaks may be cut off to stop the hens pecking each other
  2. Make (a hole) by striking with the beak
    • - robins are the worst culprits, pecking holes in every cherry
  3. Remove or pluck out by biting with the beak
    • - vultures swooping down to peck out the calf's eyes
  4. Kiss (someone) lightly or perfunctorily
    • - she pecked him on the cheek
  5. (of a person) Eat (food) listlessly or daintily
    • - don't peck at your food, eat a whole mouthful
  6. Criticize or nag
    • - defects for a critic to peck at
  7. Type (something) slowly and laboriously
    • - his son Paul was pecking out letters with two fingers on his typewriter
  8. (of a horse) Pitch forward or stumble as a result of striking the ground with the front rather than the flat of the hoof
    • - her father's horse had pecked slightly on landing
  9. Strike with a pick or other tool
    • - part of a wall was pecked down and carted away
Noun
  1. A measure of capacity for dry goods, equal to a quarter of a bushel (8 US quarts = 8.81 liters, or 2 imperial gallons = 9.092 liters)

  2. A large number or amount of something
    • - a peck of dirt
  1. batch: (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"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  2. hit lightly with a picking motion
  3. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
  4. eat by pecking at, like a bird
  5. a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
  6. smack: kiss lightly
  7. pick at: eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
  8. nag: bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"
  9. A peck is an imperial and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 2 gallons, 8 dry quarts, or 16 dry pints. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel.
  10. This is a list of characters in the game Suikoden IV. Many of these characters also appear in its successor, Suikoden Tactics.
  11. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; A great deal; a large or excessive quantity; A short kiss; To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument; To do something in small, intermittent pieces; To type by searching for each key individually; To type ...
  12. When it comes to selecting a unit of volume, I never know which one to peck!
  13. two gallons of wheat make a peck, four pecks a bushel. As a dry measure, it was 14 pounds.
  14. is a rooster who is friends with Freddy. He gets worried about Freddy at times.
  15. In Eventing this means that the horse stumbles when it lands after going over a barrier.
  16. channeled or pitted areas or pockets found in cedar and cypress. Wood tissue between pecky areas remains unaffected in appearance and strength. All further growth of the fungus causing peckiness ceases after the trees are felled.
  17. Twenty minutes allowed for lunch
  18. twenty pounds in weight