Definition of peck

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Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..

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Ruble :: Ruble (n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents..
Figeater :: Figeater (n.) A bird. See Figpecker.
Specked :: Specked (imp. & p. p.) of Spec.
Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.
Peck :: Peck (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up..
Grysbok :: Grysbok (n.) A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn..
Speckle :: Speckle (n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself..
Woodchuck :: Woodchuck (n.) The yaffle, or green woodpecker..
Bill :: Bill (v. i.) To strike; to peck.
Kenspeckle :: Kenspeckle (a.) Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.
Bespeckled :: Bespeckled (imp. & p. p.) of Bespeckl.
Woodpecker :: Woodpecker (n.) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.
Spaky :: Spaky (a.) Specky.
Buck-eyed :: Buck-eyed (a.) Having bad or speckled eyes.
Ivory-bill :: Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States..
Homer :: Homer (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..
Hickway :: Hickway (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.
Henpeck :: Henpeck (v. t.) To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
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