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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Plashy :: Plashy (a.) Specked, as if plashed with color..
Sanded :: Sanded (a.) Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound..
Spaky :: Spaky (a.) Specky.
Bespeckled :: Bespeckled (imp. & p. p.) of Bespeckl.
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.
Epha :: Epha (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer..
Peck :: Peck (v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree..
Peck :: Peck (n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
Caligo :: Caligo (n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself..
Fleck :: Fleck (n.) A spot; a streak; a speckle.
Slip :: Slip (n.) An opening or space for vessels to lie in, between wharves or in a dock; as, Peck slip..
Speckle :: Speckle (n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself..
Quart :: Quart (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints..
Tapper :: Tapper (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer..
Hoop :: Hoop (n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks..
Pecker :: Pecker (n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker..
Speck :: Speck (n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus..
Mote :: Mote (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck..
Flyspeck :: Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.
Spight :: Spight (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.
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