the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Peck
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
(2):
(v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
(3):
(n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
(4):
(n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
(5):
(v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; - often with up.
(6):
(v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
(7):
(v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
(8):
(v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
(9):
(v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Peck'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/peck.html. 1828.
