n. 配克(英美干量单位), 啄痕, 啄食, 许多

vt. 啄, 啄食, 琢, 凿成, 扔

vi. 啄, 吹毛求疵, 啄食, 勉强吃

[计] 取数

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.


Peck \Peck\, n.
A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a
pointed instrument.


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. ``A peck of provender.''
--Shak.

2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. ``A peck of
uncertainties and doubts.'' --Milton.


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.