Definition of peck

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

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Logcock :: Logcock (n.) The pileated woodpecker.
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..
Pearl-eyed :: Pearl-eyed (a.) Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
Hoop :: Hoop (n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks..
Vervet :: Vervet (n.) A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, / Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white..
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..
Caligo :: Caligo (n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself..
High-hoe :: High-hoe (n.) The European green woodpecker or yaffle.
Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument..
Speckled-bill :: Speckled-bill (n.) The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
Hickway :: Hickway (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
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..
Henpecking :: Henpecking (p. pr. & vb.) of Henpec.
Nutpecker :: Nutpecker (n.) The nuthatch.
Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.
Hewhole :: Hewhole (n.) The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.
Speight :: Speight (n.) A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight..
Bill :: Bill (v. i.) To strike; to peck.
Supercilious :: Superciliary (a.) Having a distinct streak of color above the eyes; as, the superciliary woodpecker..
Modius :: Modius (n.) A dry measure, containing about a peck..
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