peck

8 definitions found

peck - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Peck \Peck\, n. [Perh. akin to pack; or, orig., an indefinite
     quantity, and fr. peck, v. (below): cf. also F. picotin a
     peak.]
     1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight
        quarts; as, a peck of wheat. "A peck of provender."
        --Shak.
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     2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. "A peck of
        uncertainties and doubts." --Milton.
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  Peck \Peck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pecked (p[e^]kt); p. pr. &
     vb. n. Pecking.] [See Pick, v.]
     1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a
        bird pecks a tree.
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     2. 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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     3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak;
        to bite; to eat; -- often with up. --Addison.
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              This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. --Shak.
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     4. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed
        instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
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  Peck \Peck\, v. i.
     1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed
        instrument. --Carew.
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     2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
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              [The hen] went pecking by his side.   --Dryden.
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     To peck at,
        (a) to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at;
            to nag; to tease.
        (a) to eat slowly and in small portions, with litle
            interest; as, to peck at one's food.
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  Peck \Peck\ (p[e^]k), n.
     A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a
     pointed instrument.
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peck - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  peck
      n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or
           extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot
           of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the
           rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must
           have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of
           money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal
           , hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
           mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile,
           plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew,
           spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
      2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to
         2 gallons
      3: a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605
         cubic inches
      v 1: hit lightly with a picking motion [syn: peck, pick,
           beak]
      2: eat by pecking at, like a bird [syn: peck, pick up]
      3: kiss lightly [syn: smack, peck]
      4: eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
         [syn: pick at, peck at, peck]
      5: bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her
         husband all day long" [syn: nag, peck, hen-peck]

peck - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Peck, ID (city, FIPS 61840)
    Location: 46.47387 N, 116.42409 W
    Population (1990): 160 (84 housing units)
    Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 83545
  Peck, KS
    Zip code(s): 67120
  Peck, MI (village, FIPS 63260)
    Location: 43.25907 N, 82.81651 W
    Population (1990): 558 (233 housing units)
    Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 48466

peck - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  PECK. A measure of capacity, equal to two gallons. Vide Measure. 
  
  

peck - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "peck":
     abundance, acres, bags, barrel, barrels, batch, beak, brush, bug,
     bunt, bushel, buss, carp at, chuck, considerable, copiousness,
     countlessness, dab, deal, fillip, flick, flip, flirt, flood,
     fret at, fuss at, gobs, good deal, graze, great deal, hassle, heap,
     heaps, henpeck, lashings, lip, load, loads, lot, lots, lump, mass,
     mess, mint, mountain, much, multitude, nag, nibble, nibble at,
     niggle, nosh, numerousness, ocean, oceans, oodles, osculate, pack,
     pat, peck at, pester, pick, pick at, pick on, pile, piles,
     plenitude, plenty, pot, power, profusion, quantities, quantity,
     quite a little, raft, rafts, rap, scads, sea, sight, slew, slews,
     smack, smooch, snack, snap, spate, stack, stacks, superabundance,
     superfluity, tap, tickle, tidy sum, tip, tons, touch, volume, wad,
     wads, whisk, whole slew, world, worlds, yap at