Definition of peck

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

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Speck :: Speck (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money..
Pecker :: Pecker (n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick.
Bicched :: Bicched (a.) Pecked; pitted; notched.
Spight :: Spight (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.
Carpintero :: Carpintero (n.) A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird..
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..
Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.
Tapper :: Tapper (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer..
Peck :: Peck (n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat..
Logcock :: Logcock (n.) The pileated woodpecker.
Nickle :: Nickle (n.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker..
Piciformes :: Piciformes (n. pl.) A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups..
Peck :: Peck (n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument..
Crankbird :: Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).
Whetile :: Whetile (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle..
Stormfinch :: Stormcock (n.) The green woodpecker.
Specksioneer :: Specksioneer (n.) The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers..
Speckle :: Speckle (v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
Pigpecker :: Pigpecker (n.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps..
Peck :: Peck (v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree..
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