"Peck" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A measure of two gallons; a dry measure
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a
pointed instrument.
Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a
pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated
quick movements.
To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument;
as, to peck a hole in a tree.
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to
bite; to eat; -- often with up.
To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed
instrument.
To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird
pecks a tree.
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts;
as, a peck of wheat.
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Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.
Read the complete definitionPlaced in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.
Read the complete definitionCurving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose
Read the complete definitionHaving horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey.
Read the complete definitionbalanban n k. o. half beak: Hemirhamphus spp.
Read the complete definitionbalù n garfish with upper and lower beaks of approximately the same size: Ablennis hians, Tylosurus crocodilus.
Read the complete definitionbansa n k. o. half beak (fish). bansa, bansà n a territorial unit, state. v [a12] be a state. Sukad …
Read the complete definitionA bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and …
Read the complete definitionAnything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
Read the complete definitionA toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
Read the complete definitionThe bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according …
Read the complete definitionThe long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
Read the complete definitionThe upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
Read the complete definitionAny process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
Read the complete definitionA similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
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Read the complete definitionA continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water …
Read the complete definitionThe prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
Read the complete definitionThat part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
Read the complete definitionA beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of …
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