peck
has definitions from the field of food
|
|
1 |
[ verb ] hit lightly with a picking motion
Used in print (Genevieve Holden, Deadlier Than the Male....)She was a large woman with a frizzled gray poodle cut and a pencil clamped like a_bit between her teeth while she hunted and pecked on an old typewriter . |
2 |
[ verb ] (food) eat by pecking at; of birds
Synonyms Used in print (San Francisco Chronicle,...)`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who , forgetting that birds are the_most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents , are encouraged to try to get_rid_of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '' , Buchheister told the delegates . |
3 | |
4 | |
5 |
[ noun ] a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
Related terms |
6 |
[ noun ] (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Examples : "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" Related terms |
7 | |
8 |
[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 795
|
9 |
[ noun ] a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
Related terms |
* |
|