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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
  1. (Pecking) (n.): a dance introduced at the Cotton Club in 1937.
  2. (Pecking - (or small peck)) used to describe a method used to create a petroglyph.  Whereby a tool, such as a sharp pointed rock, was utilized in a percussive manner, to hit the rock and carve the drawing.  The tool may have been used alone or with a "hammerstone" to peck the bearing surface. ...
  3. (Pecking) Battering a stone with a hammerstone to form an intended shape by removal of very small chips.
  4. (Pecking) Move head forward and back.
  5. (Pecking) a technique for producing petroglyphs in which a hard implement (such as a rock) is used as a hammer to peck an image into a softer rock surface.
  6. (also "pecking and grinding"): the process of manufacturing heavy-duty stone tools (bowls, mauls etc.) from granular rocks by prolonged hammering with a hammerstone. Abrasive techniques might be used to finish the piece.
  7. (pecking) a method of shaping stone artifacts by hammering them, thus wearing away the surface. Pecking facets are readily discernible on mauls, axes and celts unless they have been erased by subsequent polishing.
  8. The dimpling of the surface of a stone as the result of the stone being struck repeatedly with a harder object.
  9. When a horse's head nearly touches the ground after jumping a fence.