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pecking |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peck \Peck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pecked}; 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. 2. Hence: To strike, pick thrust against, or dig into with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick etc., with repeated quick movements. 3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up --Addison. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. --Shak. 4. To make by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as to peck a hole in a tree.
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