Word Finder - pecking

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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.

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The act by which something is pecked.

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the peckings of hungry chickens

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The ancient skill of shaping stone into tools, containers, or artworks.

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The sport of throwing pebbles at birds.

She's pecking away on her story— has been, most of the night.

She's pecking away on her story— has been, most of the night.

This pecking, combined with feather loss from rubbing against the cage bars, can result in almost totally bald birds.

High risk of injurious feather pecking and cannibalism, thus beak trimming is often necessary.

Many small birds were mobbing the owl, and we watched a Gray Woodpecker attempt to drive it away by pecking at its feet!

Every dog in a pack has a pack mate that is either above or below him in the pecking order, and he'll react submissively to those above him, and dominant to those below him.

When taking this supplement or eating tryptophan-rich foods, you have to keep in mind that there's a pecking order when it comes to how your body absorbs amino acids.

One reason for his lack of follow through may have to do with where you are on the pecking order.

All the main line murderers, gangsters and gang bangers looked down on us sex offenders like puke on the sidewalk but the pecking order didn't stop there.

She is much interested in some little chickens that are pecking their way into the world this morning.

By the patient study of the behaviour of precocious young birds, such as chicks, pheasants, ducklings and moorhens, it can be readily ascertained that such modes of activity as running, swimming, diving, preening the down, scratching the ground, pecking at small objects, with the characteristic attitudes expressive of fear and anger, are so far instinctive as to be definite on their first occurrence - they do not require to be learnt.