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PECK, n.

1. The fourth part of a bushel a dry measure of eight quarts as a peck of wheat or oats.
2. In low language, a great deal as, to be in a peck of troubles.

PECK,

1. To strike with the beak to thrust the beak into, as a bird that pecks a hole in a tree.
2. To strike with a pointed instrument, or to delve or dig with any thing pointed, as with a pick-ax.
3. To pick up food with the beak.
4. To strike with small and repeated blows to strike in manner to make small impressions. In this sense,the verb is generally intransitive. We say, to peck at.

This verb and pick are radically the same.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Peck'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​p/peck.html.
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