Definition of peck

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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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Peck :: Peck (n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
Redhead :: Redhead (n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
Sanded :: Sanded (a.) Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound..
Fair :: Fair (superl.) Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure..
Picine :: Picine (a.) Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes..
Speckled :: Speckled (a.) Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.
Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts..
Henpecked :: Henpecked (imp. & p. p.) of Henpec.
Menild :: Menild (a.) Covered with spots; speckled; variegated.
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards..
Bath :: Bath (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure..
Dot :: Dot (n.) Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child..
Zygodactylous :: Zygodactylous (a.) Yoke-footed; having the toes disposed in pairs; -- applied to birds which have two toes before and two behind, as the parrot, cuckoo, woodpecker, etc..
Copeck :: Copeck (n.) A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.
Snapper :: Snapper (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle..
Peckish :: Peckish (a.) Inclined to eat; hungry.
Speck :: Speck (v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture..
Wallhick :: Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
Crankbird :: Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).
Speckle :: Speckle (n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself..
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