(Often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.
To eat by small pieces like a bird.
To hit lightly with a picking motion.
(For a bird) To eat by small pieces with one's beak or bill.
Другие значения термина "peck" 1 We put in a peck at a time, in a dozen places.
2 They peck when I even think about moving but that's not real.
3 A bird-like peck at the inkwell, and the pen began to scratch-scratch-scratch.
4 Down came the pipe, and with it a peck of greasy soot.
5 With that and the flash-light we could get a peck of them.
6 Impetuously, she darts forward and plants a chaste peck on his cheek.
7 For the first he sent me baskets that held about a peck .
8 She gave me a quick peck on the cheek, utterly surprising me.
9 The metal roof pinged as the birds began to peck at it.
10 Use one peck of juicy cooking apples and two quarts of sugar.
11 He would run up to me and peck out of my hand.
12 Before thou trust a friend eat a peck of salt with him.
13 Take a peck of morella cherries, and a peck of black hearts.
14 Bursch that very young chickens peck at insects which they afterwards avoid.
15 I gave Bob a hug and Morelli a peck on the cheek.
16 Adan smiled at me and gave me a peck on the cheek.
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