peck : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: peck	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for peck
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peck n (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" Synonym(s): 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 a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches v hit lightly with a picking motion [syn: peck, pick, beak] eat by pecking at, like a bird Synonym(s): peck, pick up kiss lightly Synonym(s): smack, peck eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food" Synonym(s): pick at, peck at, peck bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long" Synonym(s): nag, peck, hen-peck
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peck \Peck\, v. i. 1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument. --Carew. 2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat. [The hen] went pecking by his side. --Dryden. {To peck at}, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]A peck of provender.[b8] --Shak. 2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. [bd]A peck of uncertainties and doubts.[b8] --Milton.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peck \Peck\, n. A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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