Peck

·noun A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

II. Peck ·vi To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.

III. Peck ·vi To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.

IV. Peck ·v To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.

V. Peck ·noun A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

VI. Peck ·noun The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

VII. Peck ·v To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.

VIII. Peck ·v To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to Bite; to Eat;

— often with up.

IX. Peck ·v Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, ·etc., with repeated quick movements.