PECK


Meaning of PECK in English

noun a great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

2. peck ·vi to pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.

3. peck ·vi to make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.

4. peck ·v to strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.

5. peck ·noun a quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

6. peck ·noun the fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

7. peck ·v to make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.

8. peck ·v to seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat;

— often with up.

9. peck ·v 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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