peck

IPA: pˈɛk

An act of striking with a beak.
A small kiss.
One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
(UK, slang, obsolete) Food.
A surname.
A city in Idaho.
A village in Michigan.
A town in Wisconsin.
Misspelling of pec. [(colloquial, usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle.]

(transitive, intransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
(transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
To type by searching for each key individually.
(rare) To type in general.
To kiss briefly.
(regional) To throw.
To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.

Examples of "peck" in Sentences

He was pecked back onto the ground.
A man's eyes are pecked out by a hawk.
He pecks out the eyes of the basilisk.
Peck also discussed the question of the devil.
My stepsisters get their eyes pecked out by doves.
I know that it pecked at it for the last couple of years.
He held a cell phone to one ear and pecked on his laptop computer.
She also claimed there were several incidents in which children were pecked.
Mike also spent its time preening and attempting to peck for food with its neck.
Down the garden, the hens pecked noisily around the blue chicken coop while the sun struggled to come out on this damp Summer morning.