Definition of peck

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Peck (n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

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Peck :: Peck (n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..
Wallhick :: Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
Kopeck :: Kopeck (n.) A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents..
Flicker :: Flicker (n.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca..
Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.
Eccle :: Eccle (n.) The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle..
Variolitic :: Variolitic (a.) Thickly marked with small, round specks; spotted..
Yaffle :: Yaffle (n.) The European green woodpecker (Picus, / Genius, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack..
Yoke-toed :: Yoke-toed (a.) Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers..
Speck :: Speck (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money..
Slip :: Slip (n.) An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip..
Speckt :: Speckt (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.
Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck..
Pecked :: Pecked (imp. & p. p.) of Pec.
Speckled-bill :: Speckled-bill (n.) The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
Woodpecker :: Woodpecker (n.) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.
Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts..
Speckled :: Speckled (imp. & p. p.) of Speckl.
Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
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