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Noun peck has 3 senses
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
--1 is a kind of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
--1 has particulars: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
- peck - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
--2 is a kind of British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit
--2 is a part of bushel
- peck - a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
--3 is a kind of United States dry unit
--3 is a part of bushel
--3 has parts: quart, dry quart
Verb peck has 5 senses
- peck, pick, beak - hit lightly with a picking motion
--1 is one way to strike
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- peck, pick up - eat by pecking at, like a bird
--2 is one way to eat
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- smack, peck - kiss lightly
--3 is one way to kiss, buss, osculate
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot peck Sue
- pick at, peck at, peck - eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
--4 is one way to eat
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- nag, peck, hen-peck - bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"
--5 is one way to complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
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