Word Finder - pecked

verb

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To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).

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The birds pecked at their food.

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To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.

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to peck a hole in a tree

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To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.

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To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.

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To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

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He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.

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To type by searching for each key individually.

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To type in general.

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To kiss briefly.

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To throw.

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To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.

Examples of pecked in a Sentence

Reaching her hand into the next nest box, a hen pecked it hard.

They stood and looked in my eye or pecked at my shoe significantly.

For polished stonework the material was pecked by blows, ground with other stones, and smoothed with fine material.

They squawked and pecked at each other as she broke a trail from the tire to the coop.

In many cases it appears that only the brilliantly coloured tentacle is pecked off by the bird, and as the snail can easily regenerate a new one, this in turn becomes infected by a fresh branch of the sporocyst ramifying through the snail and thus a new supply of larvae is speedily provided (Heckert).

They were so familiar that at length one alighted on an armful of wood which I was carrying in, and pecked at the sticks without fear.

The horses were eating oats from their movable troughs and sparrows flew down and pecked the grains that fell.

At one time he painted the picture of some fruit which was so real that the birds flew down and pecked at it.

He was a gentle man, but I seem to remember that he was hen pecked by his wife.

The dressed stones for great buildings were pecked out of the ledges, and broken off with levers in pieces much too large for their needs.

Wooden toys tend to be safer for birds as small splinters can break off plastic toys if they are pecked too much.

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