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v.
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
n.
The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.
n.
One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
n.
A bushel; four pecks.
n.
An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip.
n.
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
v.
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
n.
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
a.
Speckled; spotted.
n.
An instrument for pecking; a pick.
imp. & p. p.
of Peck
v. i.
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
v. i.
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
n.
A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
a.
Inclined to eat; hungry.
n.
A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).
n.
An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
v.
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Peck
n.
A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.
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