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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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